Best 709 quotes in «jazz quotes» category

I learned jazz; that comes from blues. I learned rock; that comes from blues. I learned pop; that comes from blues. Even dance, that comes from blues, with the answer-and-response.

I learn something new every day.

I like chords that are very lush with all the lush parts taken out.

I like everything, jazz and classical, and all over the spectrum.

I like mellow music. I like some jazz. But I'm not a big hard rock guy.

I like seeing someone that can sing jazz and then flip over and sing a pop song and then sing a rock song.

I like rock music. I like jazz better, though.

I like textures and tones. Sometimes, it will be a melodic feedback from a song or something. I like warm, ethereal sounds. That kind of gets covered in every genre of music, so it could be a rock sample, jazz, soul, reggae.

I like the music. I love it & live it in fact. But for me the business part of music just plain stinks.

I like to envision the creation of a short story collection as being like putting together a jazz album. Yes, there's logic and literary structures imposed by me, but at the same time, all the tracks are shaped and ordered in a much more improvisational manner. The guiding principle for me is whether or not a story adds a layer or texture to the overall collection.

I like to listen to classical music... I like mainline jazz.

I like to say, jazz music is kind of like my musical equivalent of comfort food. You know, it's always where I go back to when I just want to feel sort of grounded.

I listen to Neil Young and jazz and classical stations and, if my girlfriend's driving, it tends to be Hall & Oates.

I listen to and I play all kinds of music, and I'm interested in jazz and in bluegrass - I like it all - but Cuban music speaks to me in a certain way.

I listen to instrumental jazz and bluegrass, but aside from my AM workout, I have no rituals.

I listen to jazz mainly. Mainstream jazz.

I listen to classical music very much. There's a lot of jazz that I don't enjoy listening to.

I love jazz music and sad music.

I love good rock'n'roll, blues and jazz, gospel, and a little reggae.

I love jazz music and sad music. I'm a sentimental guy. I'm a romantic guy.

I love most melodic music - classical, reggae, big band, jazz, blues, country, pop, swing, folk.

I love more percussions more than anything. I always wanted to be a drummer.

I love music, and a lot of it. Jazz is probably on the top with guys like Miles Davis. But I even enjoy music from the '60s and '70s.

I love many kinds of music: world music, jazz, classical, pop.

I love music, I love all kinds of music, particularly jazz. Jazz is an extension of America. There's no other country in the world that could have produced jazz.

I love Rihanna's new album, Skrillex, and Norah Jones. They're are all very different, but I love any rock, pop, and jazz.

I love that pre-mod jazz look of the late Fifties, the Steve McQueen style that influenced the British modernists.

I love that [ late-50s Verve recordings] - to me, that's the epitome of vocal jazz. It's my favorite style and era of it.

I'm a great jazz fan.

I'm a freak, everything has to be totally flat when I play. Ed Will, my jazz teacher, set up everything completely flat, and then you'd tilt your snare drum away from you, so I do that too. So my snare tilts away from me.

I'm always doubting because I've been told so much that, you're not the right look or you're not the right sound, and, you know, whether I do jazz or R&B there are always complaints.

I'm all in favor of getting grants for musicians. Or any other good brand of Scotch.

I'm a person of change and I must be honest to my artistry and my creativity. That's part of the word 'jazz'... it's an adventure.

I'm a musician and, just as the critics are hard on me, I'm hard on the critics.

I'm aware that a lot of what is happening in jazz has not had a very dynamic change in a long time.

I'm fortunate that I'm making a living at it now because I'm not equipped to do anything else.

I missed jazz, kind of. And by the time I came to it in life, it was too intimidating to enjoy thoroughly.

I'm into scales right now.

I'm interested in music, not in my image. If someone plays something fantastic, that I could never have thought of, it makes me happy to know it exists.

Imitate, assimilate, and innovate.

I'm not a jazz singer.

I'm not a big jazz fan.

I'm not a one-stop music shop with jazz improv in aisle 3 and country and western in aisle 4. I have a fairly focused and established kind of melody and approach, so people know what they're getting into when they go into business with me.

I'm not going to play funk licks on a jazz album. That makes no sense.

I'm really getting to appreciate traditional jazz now - the New Orleans stuff - a lot more than I did before.

I'm not supposed to be playing, the music is supposed to be playing me. I'm just supposed to be standing there with the horn, moving my fingers. The music is supposed to be coming through me; that's when it's really happening.

I'm now a legend, whether I want to be or not.

Improvisation is the ability to create something very spiritual, something of one's own.

Improvisation in the jazz sense - like the business sense - is not formless. It is built on a skill set. Jazz, for example, involves selecting a tune.

Improvising musicians are musical travelers, voyagers. There is a freedom to wander the musical landscape.