Jazz Quotes

• I haven't a great Jazz band and I don't want one.

  

  Glenn Miller
  • Want
  • Jazz
  • Haven't

• The jazz rhythm won't be understood by the bulk of my audience. That's the problem. We can get away with maybe one tune a night. It depends on where we place it. A song like 'Beyond the Sea,' the fans love that. It's fresh.

  

  George Benson
  • Night
  • Song
  • Audience

• 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
  • Interested
  • Beethoven
  • Unifocal

• I find as much inspiration from the forerunners of jazz as I do the modern-day innovators of jazz.

  

  John Scofield
  • Inspiration
  • Jazz
  • Innovators

• 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
  • Writing
  • Trying
  • Song

• I grew up listening to everything. You know, from Argentinean folk music, tango, jazz, rock, just everything.

  

  Gustavo Alfredo Santaolalla Bajofondo
  • Music
  • Rock
  • Listening

• 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
  • Argument
  • New Orleans
  • Rhythms

• I never liked blues music, and I really didn't like jazz. I liked Chuck Berry.

  

  John William Cummings Ramones
  • Jazz
  • Blues
  • Chuck Berry

• There’s good and bad music in all genres. I would be the first one to admit that if you’re listening to some of the smooth-jazz radio stations, a lot of that music is boring. But not all of it is. And if I’m listening to a straight-ahead jazz station, not all of that is emotionally compelling either.

  

  Boney James
  • Music
  • Boring
  • Admit

• the French write plays and paint as naturally as we play jazz - it's just a national gift.

  

  Alice B. Toklas
  • Gift
  • Paint
  • Plays

• They say that Jazz is back, and I don't think it's gone anywhere. But they say it's back.

  

  Art Blakey
  • Jazz

• I always thought jazz was like the trunk of a tree. After the tree has grown, many branches have spread out. They're all with different leaves and they all look beautiful. But at the end of the season, they fold back up and it's still the tree trunk.

  

  Earl Hines
  • Up
  • Different
  • Beautiful

• I grew up with classical music blasting in my parents' living room and my older brother's practicing saxophone in his room listening to jazz... a beautiful chaos.

  

  Josephine de La Baume
  • Beautiful
  • Listening
  • Chaos

• 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
  • Style
  • Singing
  • Romantic

• It is evidently known, beyond contradiction, that New Orleans is the cradle of Jazz and I, myself, happened to be the creator in the year 1902.

  

  Ferdinand Joseph LaMothe
  • Creator
  • Known
  • New Orlean

• Shut up and let me see your jazz hands.

  

  Gerard Way My Chemical Romance
  • Hands
  • See
  • Shut Up

• 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
  • Up
  • Good
  • Great

• 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
  • Africa
  • Rock N Roll
  • Rhythms

• 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
  • Together
  • Jazz
  • Wayne

• I have I guess 3 passions. One is the Constitution. The other is jazz and the other is being an atheist prolifer which, of course, gets me in a lot of trouble - all of which combines into free expression.

  

  Nat Hentoff
  • Trouble
  • Constitution
  • Passions

• Jazz is like a telescope, and a lot of other music is like a microscope.

  

  Kamasi Washington
  • Music
  • Telescopes
  • Microscopes

• Jazz Improvisation means that practice is not as straightforward as it would be when you simply have a score to play.

  

  Ahmad Jamal
  • Practice
  • Means
  • Improvisation

• I was a jazz major in high school, in an all-jazz band. No matter what I do, it features my musical influences.

  

  Wyclef Jean Fugees
  • Band
  • Musical
  • Influences

• There are singers that I have enjoyed, from Nina Simone and Ray Charles onward. But the music that made music the number one thing for me as a youth was jazz.

  

  Robert Wyatt
  • Music
  • Made
  • Youth

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