Best 709 quotes in «jazz quotes» category

I hate Stanley Clark, but I have to admit he's playing Jazz whether I like it or not.

I have a bachelor's and a master's in jazz.

I have a huge record and cd collection of all kinds of great classical, jazz and all music but I find the internet very accessible and quick.

I have a lot of albums yet to do.

I have a secret love of jazz.

I have a very varied taste in music. Everything from rap to classical to Latino to Rat Pack to jazz.

I have been doing music all my life so everyday when I get up I expect music will be part of it.

I have been influenced by the greatest artists in jazz, pop, reggae, traditional, ballards, pop, and all types of music, taking the best from each to represent my own personality. Whitney Houston, George Michaels, Sade, Phil Collins, and many others have influenced me.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 love jazz music and sad music.

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

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

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

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