Jazz Quotes

• My dad would play me all of these records: Miles Davis records, John Coltrane records, Bill Evans records, a lot of jazz records. My first exposure to music was listening to jazz records.

  

  Eldar Djangirov
  • Music
  • Records
  • Jazz

• 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

• 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'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.

  

  Eldar Djangirov
  • Music
  • Creative
  • Relevant

• Jazz is America's classical music.

  

  Billy Taylor
  • Jazz
  • Classical Music

• 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

• Make no mistake, this music is for everyone. Jazz is not an exclusive, elite club. Go ahead, listen to your Snoop Doggy Dog, Pearl Jam, Garth Brooks, but add a little Ellington, Basie and Coltrane to your life as well.

  

  Christian McBride
  • Music
  • Everyone
  • Jazz

• I know jazz is completely un-American. But the reason why America doesn't like it is because it's not funny. We americans have made jazz funny.

  

  Paul Provenza
  • America
  • Funny
  • Jazz

• 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.

  

  Gary Giddins
  • Really
  • Because
  • Going

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

  

  Mose Allison
  • Player
  • Jazz
  • Classic

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

  

  Travis Barker Blink-182
  • School
  • Band
  • Wells

• I didn't like progressive jazz or anything. Rock was something I like to listen to.

  

  Floor Jansen Nightwish
  • Rock
  • Listen
  • Jazz

• 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 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

• Everybody has the blues. Everybody longs for meaning. Everybody needs to love and be loved. Everybody needs to clap hands and be happy. Everybody longs for faith. In music, especially this broad category called jazz, there is a stepping-stone to all of these.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Happy
  • Loved
  • Meaning

• The value of music is not dazzling yourself and others with technique.

  

  Herbie Hancock
  • Values
  • Jazz
  • Technique

• The jazz guitarist Peter Sprague calls his home recording studio SpragueLand, but sometimes it seems that the moniker better captures the way he has turned the entire southland into his own musical playground. Sprague is a highly versatile musician who draws on the wellsprings of jazz and Brazilian music as primary influences.

  

  Andrew S. Gilbert
  • Jazz
  • Wellsprings
  • Brazilian Music

• Every ‘mistake’ is an opportunity in jazz.

  

  Stefon Harris
  • Opportunity
  • Mistake
  • Jazz

• 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

• My dad actually taught me how to play piano. I was classically trained, but I've started to branch off a little bit into blues and jazz. That's my new thing.

  

  Noah Gray-Cabey
  • Jazz
  • Piano
  • Trained

• I can't imagine my life without the extraordinary bebop jazz revolution in New York in late '40s and '50s.

  

  Robert Wyatt
  • Revolution
  • Imagine
  • Extraordinary

• 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

• Girls liking bad boys is the cookie jar complex. When somebody tells you you can't have a cookie, you want a cookie. But I live in a bad-boy world, artistically. All the jazz boys are bad boys.

  

  Harry Connick, Jr.
  • World
  • Girl
  • Boys

• I suppose it was later on that I realized that there was some reaction among the musicians themselves, some of whom resented the success of cool jazz in California, and that broke down into the white guys against the hard-blowing black guys in New York.

  

  Ashley Kahn
  • Success
  • Jazz
  • Reaction

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