Jazz Quotes
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I'm always looking to create new avenues or new visions of music.
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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 feel a lot more secure about the directions I take, than I might have, had I not practiced Buddhism.
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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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The main thing about the word jazz, is that it's very limiting to what people are doing.
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And I played in jazz band as well during all three years in school.
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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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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.
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The value of music is not dazzling yourself and others with technique.
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It seems all worlds of music - rock, blues, R&B, soul, hip-hop and others - are able to point to impromptu get-togethers as proud moments in their timelines, encounters that were recorded and created music of lasting impression. In the jazz tradition, there are a few, but none that has been revered for as long as Jazz at Massey Hall.
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I've learnt new scales through playing different types of music, like Indian raga scales, gipsy scales and harmonically-based jazz scales.
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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.
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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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"Jazz" to begin with, is a really bad word... all the true musicians that really play jazz, jazz is the worst word for it. Jazz is a process. Jazz is a creative process. It's not so much a genre, but a way of expression.
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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.
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I didn't like progressive jazz or anything. Rock was something I like to listen to.
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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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One thing I like about jazz, kid, is that I don't know what's going to happen next. Do you?
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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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The law don't like jazz clubs. No one wants anything to do with that kind of trouble.
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You know I want to sing for people, I want to jazz people up I want to make new music that they've never heard.
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Jazz is the greatest American art form and our greatest export. We don't pay attention to the youth of jazz, don't stoke the fires creatively for the youth coming up. I feel like jazz musicians became too much of purists - with Donald Byrd doing funk jazz in the '70s.
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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.
