Top 1200 Jazz Band Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

You have to go out and learn jazz by playing.

We all know that jazz demands a cultivation of the mind.

It takes an intelligent ear to listen to Jazz.

Jazz will be the classical music of the future.

To me, jazz is a place where anything is possible.

Basically, every band that makes it has some dude with some sense of business. I don't know if our band would've been so successful were it not for Daniel's [Kessler] insight into how things really work. Daniel was the one who was diligently saying, "We should make a demo, send it out, play shows but not too many shows, get on shows with touring bands that are coming to New York."

As I've gotten older, my love for jazz has increased.

The point of jazz is, you do something and then you go on.

I wouldn't really say I'm a jazz guy, which I'm not.

Playing jazz in restaurants is too stereotypical.

I think jazz is a wonderful learning tool.

Jazz is there and gone. It happens. You have to be present for it. That simple.

Jazz can be a blank canvas full of possibilities.

Writing is like jazz. It can be learned, but it can't be taught.

Jazz is the folk music of the machine age.

I like to shop for old jazz albums.

I always wanted to sing a jazz record.

I think jazz is good, but I don't enjoy it. It's not for me.

Jazz music is an intensified feeling of nonchalance.

To most jazz critics I was basically Kenny G.

I'm a pianist - I studied jazz piano in college.

Jazz is one of the least learnable art forms.

I did jazz dance for a few years.

Down is an incredibly important band to me. And there's one other project that may be a little tough for people to understand - it's not sonically heavy, but subject-wise it's absolutely heavy. It's a band that I've been in for many, many yearsm and I've just been waiting for the right itme, and boy, it sure is the right time. So, yeah, you will hear music from Philip Anselmo again, and it ain't gonna be nothing nice.

I listen to old jazz and classical music, and that's it.

We started the band with a work ethic of 'it's us against the world' and that is something that our fans aligned with, too. Together, we speak a common language. I think that motto has helped us keep the creative force alive all these years while the fans have kept the fire burning for us to always be excited to create new music for them. Without the fans, we are a band without a home.

Jazz is not a 'form' but a collection of tags and tricks.

A jazz beat is a dynamic changing rhythm.

Everybody in all countries tries to play jazz.

Jazz speaks for life. This is triumphant music.

In jazz, there is a lot of European influence harmonically.

I'm this strange kind of fusion of jazz, pop, and R&B.

It's always fun to talk about jazz.

Jazz is so incestuous that it's starting to kill itself.

You know the rules. No jazz before a rumble.

Jazz never ends... it just continues.

Science teachers and the mentally ill, that's all Jazz is for.

Jazz isn't dead. It just smells funny.

If it has more than three chords, it's jazz.

Someday, I hope to do a jazz club tour.

There's so much spirit of integration and democracy in jazz.

I do find modern jazz quite tricky.

Jazz is the most fun you can have with your clothes on.

The main reason we didn't break up is because we weren't really a college band. We were just, two dudes who were messing around with music. We never played off-campus except for once or twice. We never had any ambitions to make it as a band after college, or anything like that. So that probably worked in our favor. We never took anything seriously, we still don't!

In the early eighties, there were a lot of artists involved with the music scene. All those young artists, before their careers took off, were into music. Robert Longo used to play some guitar. He had a band for a while. Basquiat had a band. I mean, people were always trying to mix music and art - in fact, I'm guilty of it myself.

There's something intrinsically Australian about a bunch of brothers and school friends getting together as a band at a very young age and all pulling together as a band at a very young age and all pulling together as mates to make something happen.

Jazz is the art of thinking out loud.

Jazz is like blues with a shot of heroin!

I would say that jazz is my own language.

Jazz is about freedom within discipline.

Jazz changes and all. But I don't know the names of what it is I'm doing.

Tony Bennett is an iconic jazz legend.

One of the greatest attributes of jazz, I think, is that it is that open.

That's the jazz that I like - the stuff that has a soothing effect.

The only element of jazz that I keep is improvisation.

Rhythms, beats, etc., are fundamentally central to my creative drive: my first instrument was the drums, nearly every band I have been involved in or at the helm of, is driven by rhythm, my band is driven entirely by rhythm, machine rhythm, and the purpose of the rock instrumentation is literally to speak the beats, to emulate the rhythms with guitars and bass, with very little articulation, and without being 'progressive'.

I recorded my first jazz record in the '70s.

I've got wide tastes, but I don't like jazz.

The Jazz have got one of the most loyal fanbases.

Jazz: Music invented for the torture of imbeciles.