Jazz Quotes
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Music is my religion. Music is the only thing that has never failed me. People let you down, music won't.
Gary Bartz
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Jazz is a way of life, and you have to learn about it on the street, so to speak. But the training comes in by giving you the tools to work with.
Paul Horn
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I like to say, jazz music is kind of like my musical equivalent of comfort food. You know, it's always where I go back to when I just want to feel sort of grounded.
Molly Ringwald
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Jazz is not just music, it's a way of life, it's a way of being, a way of thinking.
Eunice Kathleen Waymon
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In my view a jazz musician is a great musician
Michael Parkinson
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I just saw a recent television program about art, and it was saying how from the end of the Second World War, so much of what our culture is comes from not just the United States in general, but New York in particular. In my case, I can't imagine my life without the extraordinary bebop jazz revolution in New York in late '40s and '50s.
Robert Wyatt
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I was introduced to jazz, and that's become a basic concern and passion of mine ever since.
Nat Hentoff
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It's very modern. Very gamine. You look like a jazz singer.
Elizabeth Wein
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I was interested in Armstrong to begin with because he is the most important figure in Jazz in the 20th Century. There's simply no question about it. I mean, if you're going to compare him to somebody, it's Shakespeare in terms of centrality of the tradition, in being at the beginning of it.
Terry Teachout
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Oscar Peterson is the greatest living influence on jazz pianists today.
Herbie Hancock
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It pulled me like a magnet, jazz did, because it was a way that I could express myself.
Herbie Hancock
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I don't mind being classified as a jazz artist, but I do mind being restricted to being a jazz artist. My foundation has been in jazz, though I didn't really start out that way. I started in classical music, but my formative years were in jazz, and it makes a great foundation.
Herbie Hancock
