Jazz Quotes

• 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

• Who knows ... we'll be playing Jazz and having a good time!

  

  Art Blakey
  • Time
  • Good
  • Playing

• That.s what Jazz music is all about.We started the Messengers because somebody had to mind the store for jazz.No America--no Jazz. It is the only culture that America has brought forth.

  

  Art Blakey
  • Music
  • Mind
  • America

• Jazz does not belong to one race or culture, but is a gift that America has given the world.

  

  Ahmad Alaadeen
  • World
  • Gift
  • Jazz

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

  

  Glenn Miller
  • Want
  • Jazz
  • Haven't

• I don’t know why jazz critics don’t like contemporary jazz. I think a lot of them feel that straightahead jazz has to be championed by them. And I think there’s resentment involved that the kind of music I’m playing will sell more, and has more radio play.

  

  Boney James
  • Music
  • Critics
  • Radio Play

• Well first of all, I'm a singer. I sing since I talk. So the great ballad singers, the people that sang with so much feeling, jazz, blues, all those singers, they were songs that I listened to, records that my mom played for me, and then later I bought.

  

  Gloria Estefan Miami Sound Machine
  • People
  • Great
  • Song

• The jazz always seems to automatically come out, because it was from my jazz days that I learned that spark. And the nice thing with my band and this repertoire, which is a complete joy, is that we go beyond just playing chords and melody. It is music that can stretch out.

  

  George Benson
  • Music
  • Nice
  • Joy

• 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

• 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

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

  

  Kamasi Washington
  • Music
  • Telescopes
  • Microscopes

• 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

• Bach was a top harmonist geezer, which is why the jazz cats love him.

  

  Nigel Kennedy
  • Jazz
  • Bach

• It is jazz music that called me to be a musician and I have always sang the songs that moved me the most.

  

  Harry Connick, Jr.
  • Song
  • Musician
  • Moved

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

  

  Alice B. Toklas
  • Gift
  • Paint
  • Plays

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

  

  John William Cummings Ramones
  • Jazz
  • Blues
  • Chuck Berry

• 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 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

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

  

  Gustavo Alfredo Santaolalla Bajofondo
  • Music
  • Rock
  • Listening

• 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

• 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

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