Jazz Quotes
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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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For me, jazz will always be the soundtrack of the civil rights movement.
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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 listen to instrumental jazz and bluegrass, but aside from my AM workout, I have no rituals.
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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.
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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 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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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 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.
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Jazz is America's classical music.
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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 history of all big jazz bands shows was, first they played for dancing, and then they played for singing.
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I feel a lot more secure about the directions I take, than I might have, had I not practiced Buddhism.
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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'm always looking to create new avenues or new visions of music.
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I like a lot of electronica. I like older jazz rather than newer.
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I'd rather call it "instrumental creative music," especially the music that I've been doing. If a person would hear that music, they would undoubtedly call it "jazz." There is this whole generation of musicians that are playing and thinking critically for themselves and making music that's relevant to today. I hope that's the objective of a lot of musicians.
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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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And I played in jazz band as well during all three years in school.
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Every ‘mistake’ is an opportunity in jazz.
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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 can't imagine my life without the extraordinary bebop jazz revolution in New York in late '40s and '50s.
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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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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.
