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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Jazz was born out of the whiskey bottle, was raised on marijana, and will expire on cocaine.
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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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Don't play what's there, play what's not there.
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For me, jazz will always be the soundtrack of the civil rights movement.
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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'm really not this jazz traditionalist guy you've been making me out to be all of these years.
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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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Jazz is America's classical 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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I've really gone into business since I got the 6 string, which was like starting all over.
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All the jazz guys had interracial relationships, and even the ladies did. Over the years, interracial relationships have been a hip, almost defiant thing, a way of saying "Nobody can put a boundary around me."
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In high school I was a jazz nerd, listened to a lot of Bud Powell and Thelonious Monk and stuff like that. Maybe in Harry Pussy I was listening to more horn players.
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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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To me, jazz is a place where anything is possible.
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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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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 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 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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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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Normal adults can doodle, amble, and drift with no need to assess risk, since there is normally no risk at all. Jazz improvisation seems less subject to standards of risk than surgery, and less than much formal athletic performance, as in a tennis match.
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I like a lot of electronica. I like older jazz rather than newer.
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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.
