Jazz Quotes
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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.
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All the forms of popular music from jazz to hip-hop, to bebop, to soul come from black innovation. You talk about different dances from the catwalk, to the jitterbug, to the Charleston, to break dancing -\-\ all these are forms of black dancing...What would [life] be without a song, without a dance, and joy and laughter, and music.
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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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The talking shows are like free jazz. I'm just gonna go out there and blow with the idea of keeping it streamlined and not wasting time. It's wild. And it's a great thing when you see a performer really able to.
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I'm always looking for ways to develop as an artist, especially as a jazz artist-to find different ways of testing my voice.
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Diana Krall knocks me out. I like jazz and I like her simple approach.
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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.
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I keep reverting (to Duke Ellington), he to me is the greatest ever and my favorite jazz philosopher, as such.
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I have learned as much about writing about my people by listening to blues and jazz and spirituals as I have by reading novels.
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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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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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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'm always looking for ways to develop as a Jazz artist, to find different ways of using my voice.
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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.
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Jazz is America's classical music.
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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 turn on some jazz guitarist, and he won't do a thing for me, if he's not playing electrically. But Jeff Beck's great to listen to.
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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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My mother was a jazz fanatic and she wanted me to play the piano so I could play jazz tunes. I wish I had learned but I was too busy getting into trouble!
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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.
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I don't know who's 18 years old today that, 20 years hence, is going to be a jazz fan.
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The law don't like jazz clubs. No one wants anything to do with that kind of trouble.
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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.
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Every ‘mistake’ is an opportunity in jazz.
