Jazz Quotes
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I'm just writing love songs. I'm not trying to be pop. I'm not trying to be jazz. I'm not trying to be anything. I'm just writing love songs. And everyone loves a love song.
Adele
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I find as much inspiration from the forerunners of jazz as I do the modern-day innovators of jazz.
John Scofield
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We always talk about how everyone is unifocal. You can't possibly be interested in jazz and Beethoven. Of course you can. You can't both be reading a newspaper and be online. Of course you can. We shouldn't be obsessed with a gun to your head, 'You either read a newspaper or die!'
Harold Evans
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I grew up listening to everything. You know, from Argentinean folk music, tango, jazz, rock, just everything.
Gustavo Alfredo Santaolalla
Bajofondo
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Jazz came out of New Orleans, and that was the forerunner of everything. You mix jazz with European rhythms, and that's rock n' roll, really. You can make the argument that it all started on the streets of New Orleans with the jazz funerals.
David Howell Evans
U2
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I never liked blues music, and I really didn't like jazz. I liked Chuck Berry.
John William Cummings
Ramones
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Intimate singing had a wonderful style in the '30s and '40s. It came out of Broadway and the jazz of Louis Armstrong and Billie Holliday. But Sinatra created the best romantic era that we've ever had.
Tony Bennett
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They say that Jazz is back, and I don't think it's gone anywhere. But they say it's back.
Art Blakey
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I mix everything up. A museum curator once said to me that there is a great jazz component to the way I do things because good jazz is improvisation and draws elements from all different cultures. And that's the way I do everything - the way I dress and decorate.
Iris Apfel
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If there was no black man there would be no Rock'n'Roll. The beat, the rhythms of Africa are what created Rock'n'Roll and Jazz.
Ray Manzarek
The Doors
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I spent five years, at least, working with Miles. Together, we recorded ESP, Nefertiti, Sorcerer -- and I can tell you; each of these albums instantly became jazz classics. Hey, we had Wayne Shorter playing tenor sax, Ron [Carter] on bass, Tony Williams played drums. That was great band we had.
Herbie Hancock
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Jazz is like a telescope, and a lot of other music is like a microscope.
Kamasi Washington