Jazz Quotes
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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.
Chris Botti Incognito -
Hopefully, we learn to appreciate hip-hop here so that it doesn't go the way of jazz.
Talib Kweli Black Star
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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 -
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.
Dan Morgenstern -
I don't know who's 18 years old today that, 20 years hence, is going to be a jazz fan.
Norman Granz -
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 -
As a lover of both hip-hop and jazz, I feel like much of the latter community still doesn't truly embrace hip-hop as a musical extension.
Amanda Seales -
I've learnt new scales through playing different types of music, like Indian raga scales, gipsy scales and harmonically-based jazz scales.
Nigel Kennedy
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I'm always looking for ways to develop as a Jazz artist, to find different ways of using my voice.
Cassandra Wilson -
Jazz has the ability to absorb & transform influences from diverse musical styles.
Andrew S. Gilbert -
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 -
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 -
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 -
Jazz has been the voice of freedom for so many countries over the past half century.
Herbie Hancock
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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 -
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.
Bill Orcutt -
I'm always looking to create new avenues or new visions of music.
Herbie Hancock -
The economic picture in the States today doesn't allow for jazz concerts in a tour fashion. People now are too used to the Festival, which gives them more names for the same price.
Norman Granz -
I keep reverting (to Duke Ellington), he to me is the greatest ever and my favorite jazz philosopher, as such.
Cannonball Adderley -
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
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When I started doing improvise music in Europe, in the beginning I thought the way that Europeans were interpreting the reconstruction of deconstruction of this thing that we call jazz - of course it's different than what Americans do, because Europeans have a different history, a different sensibility and so forth - the nature of the creative process itself it's the same; but what comes from that creative process is different, because you have a different history, you have a different society, different language.
Hamid Drake -
I did everything I could to not bring in any of the - any of the technical things I got from classical into jazz. And I did everything to really base it on my speaking voice and to just not try to make it sound pretty.
Cecile McLorin Salvant -
One thing I like about jazz, kid, is that I don't know what's going to happen next. Do you?
Bix Beiderbecke -
There's no future without the past and anybody who doesn't really understand where jazz has come from has no right to try to direct where it's going.
Cannonball Adderley