Jazz Quotes

• Jazz has the ability to absorb & transform influences from diverse musical styles.

  

  Andrew S. Gilbert
  • Musical
  • Transform
  • Styles

• They're not carpenters. There's not a lot of need for jazz trombone players in Shreveport, La.

  

  Ben Jaffe
  • Players
  • Jazz
  • Carpenters

• Hopefully, we learn to appreciate hip-hop here so that it doesn't go the way of jazz.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Appreciate
  • Jazz
  • Hopefully

• Whenever I open a book about jazz, I turn to the index and look for Lennie Tristano, the incredible pianist; Lee Konitz, the luminous alto sax player; and Warne Marsh, the tenor player who captured some of the most beautiful sounds in the world.

  

  Carolyn See
  • World
  • Jazz
  • Sounds

• 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.

  

  Scotty Moore
  • Country
  • Kind
  • Player

• I'm a freak, everything has to be totally flat when I play. Ed Will, my jazz teacher, set up everything completely flat, and then you'd tilt your snare drum away from you, so I do that too. So my snare tilts away from me.

  

  Travis Barker Blink-182
  • Teacher
  • Jazz
  • Freak

• Jazz music is as American as it gets, and so is the U.S. Postal Service. A Miles Davis stamp is a perfect marriage of two great American institutions.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Music
  • Perfect
  • Jazz

• I like a lot of electronica. I like older jazz rather than newer.

  

  Greg Ginn Black Flag
  • Jazz

• I used to sing with my father's jazz band and then when I was ten years old a musician friend of his suggested that I try out for the first west coast production of Annie.

  

  Molly Ringwald
  • Father
  • Band
  • Musician

• And I played in jazz band as well during all three years in school.

  

  Travis Barker Blink-182
  • School
  • Band
  • Wells

• 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.

  

  Norman Granz
  • People
  • Enough
  • Successful

• 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.

  

  Brendon Small
  • Music
  • College
  • Learn

• 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.
  • Life
  • Hope
  • Triumph

• 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.

  

  Chris Botti Incognito
  • Proud
  • Musicians
  • Groups

• 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.

  

  Stefon Harris
  • Different
  • Revolution
  • Jazz

• 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
  • Music
  • History
  • Radio

• I have learned as much about writing about my people by listening to blues and jazz and spirituals as I have by reading novels.

  

  Ernest Gaines
  • People
  • Writing
  • Reading

• I don't know who's 18 years old today that, 20 years hence, is going to be a jazz fan.

  

  Norman Granz
  • Today
  • Years
  • Knows

• All the classic jazz players all sang and a lot of 'em sang blues.

  

  Mose Allison
  • Player
  • Jazz
  • Classic

• I put out a recording of me singing mostly jazz because I wanted people to know I'm coming from a jazz background.

  

  Rickie Lee Jones
  • People
  • Jazz
  • Background

• I grew up in the funk, rock and roll, blues and r&b tradition, and I came to this thing we call jazz later. And I came to improvise music from the standpoint of jazz; I was improvising, but within these other genres of music.

  

  Hamid Drake
  • Music
  • Blues
  • Rock And Roll

• The public, hearing pop music, is, without knowing it, also soaking up jazz.

  

  Norman Granz
  • Music
  • Knowing
  • Hearing

• I'm always looking for ways to develop as an artist, especially as a jazz artist-to find different ways of testing my voice.

  

  Cassandra Wilson
  • Artist
  • Voice
  • Develop

• I feel a lot more secure about the directions I take, than I might have, had I not practiced Buddhism.

  

  Herbie Hancock
  • Feels
  • Jazz
  • Buddhism

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