Jazz Quotes

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

  

  Glenn Miller
  • Want
  • Jazz
  • Haven't

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

  

  Ahmad Alaadeen
  • World
  • Gift
  • Jazz

• 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

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

  

  Art Blakey
  • Time
  • Good
  • Playing

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

  

  Kamasi Washington
  • Music
  • Telescopes
  • Microscopes

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

  

  John William Cummings Ramones
  • Jazz
  • Blues
  • Chuck Berry

• 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

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

  

  Alice B. Toklas
  • Gift
  • Paint
  • Plays

• 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'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 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

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

  

  Nigel Kennedy
  • Jazz
  • Bach

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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
  • Known
  • Creator
  • New Orlean

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