Jazz Quotes
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The history of all big jazz bands shows was, first they played for dancing, and then they played for singing.
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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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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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The music is what sustains the player from beginning to end. That’s where you get your life from. That’s why you play jazz.
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I think when you look back at the different eras in jazz, what leads from one to another is never a melodic revolution, but a rhythmic revolution.
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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.
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They're not carpenters. There's not a lot of need for jazz trombone players in Shreveport, La.
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Amsterdam must have more than a million people. But the only area where jazz is really profitable and successful in an economic sense is in Japan. That's because they haven't been exposed enough.
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I don't want to sound as if I'm doing something tremendously special. But I am a jazz fan.
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I like a lot of electronica. I like older jazz rather than newer.
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I think when you love music, you love a lot of it. Now when it comes to jazz, it's very much in the hyperions of height. You go exploring every night.
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I think Berklee College of Music had the highest dropout rate of any college - or pretend college - in the United States. Because I think most people think they're going to be in Green Day or whatever, and you actually have to learn about music you don't care for, too. I mean, I cared for a great deal of music; it's just that I didn't want to submerge myself into the well of fusion jazz.
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I'm always looking to create new avenues or new visions of music.
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For me, jazz will always be the soundtrack of the civil rights movement.
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I put out a recording of me singing mostly jazz because I wanted people to know I'm coming from a jazz background.
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This is my favorite combo of musicians. It's one of the finest jazz groups out there. I'm just proud to be in it.
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I'd rather call it "instrumental creative music," especially the music that I've been doing. If a person would hear that music, they would undoubtedly call it "jazz." There is this whole generation of musicians that are playing and thinking critically for themselves and making music that's relevant to today. I hope that's the objective of a lot of musicians.
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The main thing about the word jazz, is that it's very limiting to what people are doing.
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Comedy is the ultimate truth. Jazz is hitting the notes that that no one else would hit, and comedy is saying words that no one else would say.
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I feel a lot more secure about the directions I take, than I might have, had I not practiced Buddhism.
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One thing I like about jazz, kid, is that I don't know what's going to happen next. Do you?
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Lars Ulrich is not a jazz drummer, but he grew up listening to jazz. Why? Because his father, Torben - an incredible tennis player - loved jazz. Jazz musicians used to stay at their house.
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Nobody knows where jazz is going, because nobody has ever known where jazz was going. I mean, you couldn't possibly predict the Swing Era from the '20's or bebop from the Swing Era or Avant-garde from Bebop, or Effusion, or on and on and on. So, we don't really know where it's going.
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You listen to a Metallica song, and you listen to the drums, and they're not necessarily swinging, but the arrangements are different. Why is that? Because it's more in tune with jazz arrangements. It's very different. It's not a traditional rock and roll production, in terms of the drums.
