Jazz Quotes
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Milton, of all people, gave the most perfect definition of the state of mind required to play jazz: ' with wanton heed and giddy cunning.' That's how you play jazz.
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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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I've really gone into business since I got the 6 string, which was like starting all over.
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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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I can't imagine my life without the extraordinary bebop jazz revolution in New York in late '40s and '50s.
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Many of the jazz musicians whom are no longer here. You don't realize that it's history when it is happening and then time passes and you look at a picture and you say "Wow, there is history attached to that."
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For me, jazz will always be the soundtrack of the civil rights movement.
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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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Jazz is America's classical music.
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I forget what the official name of it was, but they did an all-day of roots music - every kind of music you can imagine from around the country - New Orleans Jazz to Indian flute players, R&B, you name it. I met and became good friends with (blues guitar player) Joe Louis Walker. He was on the show.
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I'm always looking to create new avenues or new visions of music.
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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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The main thing about the word jazz, is that it's very limiting to what people are doing.
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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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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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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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The thing that is making jazz healthy today is that people are coming out of other backgrounds - from rock, folk, from ethnic music. It's changing the music, and for the better.
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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 like a lot of electronica. I like older jazz rather than newer.
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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 listen to instrumental jazz and bluegrass, but aside from my AM workout, I have no rituals.
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I'm always looking for ways to develop as an artist, especially as a jazz artist-to find different ways of testing my voice.
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When you think of diversity, George Duke fits that bill better than a lot of people. He's played a lot of straight-ahead jazz with people like Nancy Wilson and Cannonball Adderley; he's played a lot of fusion with his own groups, with Stanley Clarke; and, you know, he did the rock thing with Frank Zappa. He's written all kinds of big arrangements for people like Burt Bacharach. So, he's covered the board. He's still a great pianist.
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I know jazz is completely un-American. But the reason why America doesn't like it is because it's not funny. We americans have made jazz funny.
