Jazz Musician Quotes

• My mother always wanted me to be a jazz singer, but I always wanted to be raunchy.

  

  Etta James
  • My Mother
  • Jazz Musician
  • Raunchy

• I fear that I won't get better and that I won't have time to practice. To be called a "jazz musician" - it's a big responsibility.

  

  Esperanza Spalding
  • Fear
  • Responsibility
  • Practice

• It was a very ad-lib show. The musicians were all great jazz musicians. Very little music. Usually, there was just an ending and perhaps a beginning.

  

  Eydie Gorme
  • Beginning
  • Show
  • Jazz Musician

• Actually John, Paul Rutherford, and Trevor Watts, and several other rather well known English jazz musicians had got their training by joining the Air Force, which was a pretty standard way for people to get some kind of musical education in those days.

  

  Evan Parker
  • Education
  • Training
  • Air Force

• My short answer would be that there is no greatest jazz musician of the century. Jazz, like any valid art form, finds its greatness in its expression of the human spirit, and, to me, this can’t be reduced to a contest.

  

  Bennie Wallace
  • Answer
  • Human Spirit
  • Jazz Musician

• You don't have to be fearless to do anything; you can be scared out of your mind. I fear that I won't get better and that I won't have time to practice. To be called a 'jazz musician' - it's a big responsibility.

  

  Esperanza Spalding
  • Practice
  • Scared
  • Fearless