Jazz Quotes
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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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To me, jazz is a place where anything is possible.
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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 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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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 can't imagine my life without the extraordinary bebop jazz revolution in New York in late '40s and '50s.
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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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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've really gone into business since I got the 6 string, which was like starting all over.
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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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For me, jazz will always be the soundtrack of the civil rights movement.
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Jazz is America's classical music.
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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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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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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 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'm always looking to create new avenues or new visions of music.
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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 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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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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The main thing about the word jazz, is that it's very limiting to what people are doing.
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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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I like a lot of electronica. I like older jazz rather than newer.
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I listen to instrumental jazz and bluegrass, but aside from my AM workout, I have no rituals.
