Jazz Quotes
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It is jazz music that called me to be a musician and I have always sang the songs that moved me the most.
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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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I prefer her [Nina Simone's] jazz period much more so than her folk period.
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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.
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I became a jazz fan quite early and never went off the path thereafter.
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I always say that the problem with jazz accessibility is not the content of the music, it's people's ability to access it.
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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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I've never listened to jazz. It's just not something I ever paid attention to.
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Say That! is an iron fist upside the mushy head of smooth jazz, and Grant Geissman's defiant declaration of independence.
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Jazz is a beautiful woman whose older brother is a policeman.
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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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They put on fresh gloves and got back to business. Jazz wiped up the blood splatters in the freezer and tossed the tissues in with Howie’s waste. It bothered him that he was leaving evidence behind without some sort of oxygenated bleach, those blood splatters would still show up under Luminol. Of course, the odds of anyone deciding to spray down the morgue freezer and switch on an ultraviolet light were pretty minimal, so it’s not like it was evidence that anyone would ever find or use. Still: Billy Dent’s First Commandment was “Thou shalt not leave evidence.
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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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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.
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Rock and roll ain't nothing but jazz with a hard backbeat.
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I like the idea of an eclectic approach, incorporating jazz with other forms and other genres of music.
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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 listen to instrumental jazz and bluegrass, but aside from my AM workout, I have no rituals.
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I didn't plan on rock-n-roll. I wanted to learn jazz; I got to know some people doing rock-n-roll with jazz, and I thought I could make some money playing music.
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I'm always looking to create new avenues or new visions of music.
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I don't think that jazz, as any kind of an art form, has any permanence attached to it, apart from the practitioners of it.
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I did get to sing at Carnegie Hall when they were made Landmarks! I sang ALL THAT JAZZ with the NY Pops ...what a total thrill.
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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.
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Armstrong was the key creator of the mature working language of jazz. Three decades after his death and more than three-quarters of a century since his influence first began to spread, not a single musician who has mastered that language fails to make daily use, knowingly or unknowingly, of something that was invented by Louis Armstrong.
