Jazz Quotes
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The beauty of jazz is that it's malleable. People are addressing it to suit their own personalities.
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Live action writers will give you a structure, but who the hell is talking about structure? Animation is closer to jazz than some kind of classical stage structure.
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This all came of a conversation I had with [John] Steinbeck once when we were standing in a men's room somewhere. Steinbeck asked me why I didn't play the banjo any more and I told him that went out with the high-button shoes.
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In 1908 Handy didn't know anything about the blues and he doesn't know anything about jazz and stomps to this day. I myself figured out the peculiar form of mathematics and harmonies that was strange to all the world but me.
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I've had the pleasure of playing with the baddest Jazz cats on the planet.
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I've been invited to do a trio with a fantastic jazz guitarist and a harmonica player.
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I don't think of myself as a jazz musician but a medicine man.
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If it comes out sounding like Dixieland jazz or classical or punk or rock or even slightly metal, that's because that's where I'm going to find inspiration.
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Paul Desmond sounds like a female alcoholic.
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Jazz washes away the dust of every day life.
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I think all of us begin as writers. I wanted to be a writer from the time I as eight, long before I heard of jazz. The question is, once you have that obsession, what is your subject going to be and you often don't know for some time. It might become fiction, it might be non-fiction, and if it's non-fiction it can go in any number of directions.
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I'm basically a cocktail jazz kind of pianist. I'll be the first to admit that I'm not a very good keyboard player.
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Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music.
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I got my love of jazz from my stepfather, who was a jazz musician.
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As far as piano players are concerned, Oscar Peterson is my very favorite. I also like McCoy Tyner. I think that the big jazz stars, both now and in the past...how shall I say it? These guys are as great as Bach, Beethoven; all of them. People don't know it yet. If jazz survives and is put on a pedestal as an art form, the same as classical music has been through the years, a hundred years from now the kids will know who they were, with that kind of respect.
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Jazz is neither specific repertoire, nor academic exercise... but a way of life.
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I listen to everything from jazz to reggae to heavy metal and I kind of combine everything to make something different
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I listened to the radio, so I was influenced by everyone from Michael Jackson to Milli Vanilli. But thankfully my dad had a collection of Cat Stevens albums while my mom was listening to jazz.
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I always think of music as interior decoration. So, if you have all kinds of music, you are fully decorated!
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Clouds float in the same pattern only once.
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If I'm going to be a jazz player, I need to understand Miles Davis.
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After me there are no more jazz singers . . . It's a crime that no little singer is back there sockin' it to me in my field. To keep it going, to keep it alive, because I'm not going to live forever.
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I began with dance, doing ballet at 3, then tap, jazz, modern. Then I sang in church choirs, learned how to play clarinet and drums, sang with rock bands and only then did I get into musical theatre.
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Normally, things are viewed in these little segmented boxes. There's classical, and then there's jazz; romantic, and then there's baroque. I find that very dissatisfying. I was trying to find the thread that connects one type of music - one type of musician - to another, and to follow that thread in some kind of natural, evolutionary way.
