Best 709 quotes in «jazz quotes» category

I hope we left you with something to put under your pillows.

I just can't stand it [jazz/rock]. It just doesn't sound right to me. It doesn't hit me...it doesn't get me...it just doesn't grab me.

I just fell in love with the integrity of the music & that was it.

I keep reverting (to Duke Ellington), he to me is the greatest ever and my favorite jazz philosopher, as such.

I knew I could never be accepted as a straight-ahead jazz musician, nor would Iaccept myself as that. I would never be accepted as a minimalist. I wouldn't be adowntown composer. Because I find all orthodoxies, all doctrines to be ultimatelybanal.

I knew even if I'm a cowboy, I'm going to be involved in jazz in some way.

I know of musicians who have played together for decades who hate each other. The Modern Jazz Quartet for one.

I learned from my uncle that jazz, like symphony music, was built to last.

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

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

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 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 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 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 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 jazz music and sad music.

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

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 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 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 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 a great jazz fan.

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

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

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.

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.

Imitate, assimilate, and innovate.

I'm not a jazz singer.

I'm not a big jazz fan.