Jazz Quotes
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The only things that the United States has given to the world are skyscrapers, jazz, and cocktails. That is all. And in Cuba, in our America, they make much better cocktails.
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A lot of jazz artists think people should like what they're doing just because it's jazz. I don't buy that.
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By the time I approached my forties, I had the self-assurance to approach all the genres I love so deeply: R & B, rock, jazz, and pop.
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One interesting thing about jazz, or art in general, but jazz especially is such an individual art form in the sense that improvisation is such a big part of it, so it feels like it should be less soldiers in an army and more like free spirits melding. And yet, big band jazz has a real military side to it.
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I loved singing rock-and-roll, jazz, anything on radio, anything commercial. I was able to do anything, but I didn't know what direction to go in.
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I don't worry too much about the fundamentalist principles that are in almost any discussion about jazz.
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Dialogue is like jazz. Dialogue is creative.
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I've been a massive obsessive about jazz singers all my life.
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I don't know if I have enough guts to do a whole standard jazz record.
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I find Indian music very funky. I mean it's very soulful, with their own kind of blues. But it's the only other school on the planet that develops improvisation to the high degree that you find in jazz music. So we have a lot of common ground.
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I'm a great jazz fan.
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I listen to a lot of jazz. I'm a big Sinatra geek. I love Chet Baker.
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I've often felt I've been born out of my time, and when I started Fairground Attraction in the 1980s, I wanted to be a 1940s jazz singer.
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Sometimes you need to stand with your nose to the window and have a good look at jazz. And I've done that on many occasions.
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The point of jazz is, you do something and then you go on.
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I have to plead basic ignorance of most new jazz artists here.
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My personal trainer is an ex-dancer so we do a lot of ballet and jazz.
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I, of course, wanted to play real jazz. When we played pop tunes, and naturally we had to, I wanted those pops to kick! Not loud and fast, understand, but smoothly and with a definite punch.
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My big influences are Joni Mitchell, and a lot of classical and Indian music, as well as Nina Simone and the personal blues and jazz of Billie Holiday. Other influences for me include Bjork, Nick Drake, and Sufjan Stevens.
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I listen to jazz mainly. Mainstream jazz.
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I still find it hard to believe that the whole era of jazz is over.
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I've done all different kinds of genres - doo-wop, pop, funk, gospel, country, jazz, you name it.
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It's certainly no coincidence that big bands became the entertainment of the army in WWI and WWII, and that jazz drumming style is very military influenced. The snare drum comes from the military and becomes the core kind of sound of jazz drums.
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It's a mystery to me why everybody doesn't love jazz. I've never been able to figure that out.
