Jazz Quotes
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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.
Joshua Roman
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I've never listened to jazz. It's just not something I ever paid attention to.
Oprah Winfrey
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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.
Daniel Olivas
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We don't live in a jazz world, unfortunately. I think if I had lived in a jazz world, I would have done OK. I'm not sure I would have done great. I'm a lover of jazz music, so I would have been happy, don't get me wrong. I go to jazz concerts like the biggest jazz fan in world. The drag is that I don't play jazz for a living.
George Benson
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I had heard blues and jazz all my life but I was never aware that it was associated with nightclubs and drinking.
Eunice Kathleen Waymon
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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.
Cassandra Wilson
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Clifford Brown was in the jazz circles considered to be probably the greatest trumpet player who ever lived.
Herb Alpert
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Jazz has always been a melting pot of influences and I plan to incorporate them all.
Esperanza Spalding
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Not according to this," Jazz said, taking the report. "No evidence of sexual activity or anything like it." "Well, there's that," Howie said, sounding relieved. Jazz wondered at that - was it really so much better to be unmolested, but still murdered in a horrible fashion? To die in pain and terror, stripped, left in a field, your fingers cut off? But as long as you weren't raped, well, that was alright, then? Did it really matter at that point?
Barry Lyga
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Rock and roll ain't nothing but jazz with a hard backbeat.
Keith Richards
The Rolling Stones
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I think if it wasn't for the blues, there wouldn't be no jazz.
Aaron Thibeaux
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Jazz speaks for life. The Blues tell the story of life's difficulties, and if you think for a moment, you will realize that they take the hardest realities of life and put them into music, only to come out with some new hope or sense of triumph.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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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.
Miroslav Vitous
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Jazz is a beautiful woman whose older brother is a policeman.
Sid Caesar
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Don't play what's there, play what's not there.
Miles Davis
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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.
Billy Joel
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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.
Michael Jackson
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You can't teach it [jazz singing]. There's nobody who can teach you how to sing jazz. Either you know how to sing jazz, or you don't.
Tony Bennett
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Jazz has the ability to absorb & transform influences from diverse musical styles.
Andrew S. Gilbert
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Classical singing - everything had to be homogenous, and it had to just feel like one continuous flow from top to bottom, bottom to top. And in jazz, I felt like, oh, well, I can sing these deep, husky lows if I want and then sing these really, like, tiny, laser highs if I want, as well. And I have - I have no obligation to make it sound like it's just one continuous flow.
Cecile McLorin Salvant
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Duke Ellington's career traces the entire history of jazz. The repertoire associated with him contains the most important elements in the music and provides concrete examples of some of the best ways to present the music in the widest variety of settings-radio, TV, recordings, movies, concert halls, festivals, solo, small ensemble, big band, symphony orchestra, opera, Broadway shows.... You name it, he did it!
Billy Taylor
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I think we as human beings need to be able to appreciate each other's differences and I think jazz really takes us in that direction.
Herb Alpert
