Jazz Quotes
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Jazz has always been a melting pot of influences and I plan to incorporate them all.
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My dad would play me all of these records: Miles Davis records, John Coltrane records, Bill Evans records, a lot of jazz records. My first exposure to music was listening to jazz records.
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I think if it wasn't for the blues, there wouldn't be no jazz.
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I became a jazz fan quite early and never went off the path thereafter.
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I've often cringed when I heard myself described as a jazz singer. I've always thought of myself as a jazz vocalist.
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Don't worry about playing a lot of notes. Just find one pretty one.
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I have I guess 3 passions. One is the Constitution. The other is jazz and the other is being an atheist prolifer which, of course, gets me in a lot of trouble - all of which combines into free expression.
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So the whole basis for jazz music is based on the fact that the bass player could not play his instrument.
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Clifford Brown was in the jazz circles considered to be probably the greatest trumpet player who ever lived.
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Jazz has the ability to absorb & transform influences from diverse musical styles.
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Rock and roll ain't nothing but jazz with a hard backbeat.
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At this point we've answered about every question you could possibly imagine about Deep Space Nine, so we do this thing called Theatrical Jazz, where we do a show of bits and pieces of things from plays and literature, poetry... stuff that we like. It's fun.
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To my ears, jazz sounds better in warm weather and after the sun has gone down. While I will listen to some of my favorite jazz records in cooler weather, it's the warmer nights that really make them come alive. Something about those sounds and the heat of the night really makes it happen for me.
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The whole world loves American movies, blue jeans, jazz and rock and roll. It is probably a better way to get to know our country than by what politicians or airline commercials represent.
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Around age 11 or 12, I started playing jazz bass. From there, I went to electric bass and then guitar, which I kept up for a long time.
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All the forms of popular music from jazz to hip-hop, to bebop, to soul come from black innovation. You talk about different dances from the catwalk, to the jitterbug, to the Charleston, to break dancing -\-\ all these are forms of black dancing...What would [life] be without a song, without a dance, and joy and laughter, and music.
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Martin Williams persistently gets at essences, and that is why he has contributed so much to the very small body of authentic jazz criticism.
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Jazz is the last refuge of the untalented. Jazz musicians enjoy themselves more than anyone listening to them does.
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I've never listened to jazz. It's just not something I ever paid attention to.
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I cringed when I heard myself described as a Jazz singer. I've always thought of myself as a Jazz vocalist.
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The first jazz musician was a trumpeter, Buddy Bolden, and the last will be a trumpeter, the archangel Gabriel.
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Some people think I'm a rock 'n' roll musician and some think I'm a jazz musician but, for me, there is no difference.
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Jazz is really about the human experience. It’s about the ability of human beings to take the worst of circumstances and struggles and turn it into something creative and constructive. That’s something that’s built into the fiber of every human being. And I think that’s why people can respond to it. They feel the freedom in it. And the attributes of jazz are also admirable. It’s about dialogue. It’s about sharing. And teamwork. It’s in the moment, and it's nonjudgmental.
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I think jazz and comic books are probably the two uniquely American art forms.
