Top 1200 Jazz Hands Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

As any jazz musician knows, it takes flexibility and adaptability for improvisation to create beauty.

Jazz is like wine. When it is new it's only for the experts, but when it gets older everybody wants it.

One of the things jazz has always excelled at is translating the reality of the times through its musical prism.

[Jazz musicians] couldn't cut rock. I had to be more limited and specific about what I was doing.

My mother sang jazz and opera - she even performed at the Apollo on Amateur Night.

though some men did not make war as others did, if they sold their goods for profit to the war-makers, did it make them better because the weapon was not in their own hands, if they had made the weapon and sold it and so put it into the hands of those used it upon the innocent?

Jazz has a lot to do with being very present. You know the structure, then you flow through it.

I can dance. I like hip hop and stuff and jazz movements, but I'm horrible in ballet. I tried.

Gospel music rhythms are not African in origin, although I know that's what the jazz experts say.

Somehow I suspect that if Shakespeare were alive today, he might be a jazz fan himself.

Without the beat in the background, Jazz basically sounds like an armadillo was let loose on the keyboard.

The whole rise of new adult contemporary music and smooth jazz was a nice surprise.

Jazz is the false liquidation of art - instead of utopia becoming reality it disappears from the picture.

I don't want to be defined solely by what I do as a jazz musician at a club or a festival. That's not all of me. It's not even close.

Jazz today, as always in the past, is a matter of thoughtful creation, not mere unaided instinct.

I did ballet, tap, jazz, modern, I taught dance here in my hometown of St. Louis.

I listen to this mix of smooth jazz, independent hip-hop, chiptunes, and anime music.

As long as there are people trying to play music in a sincere way, there will be some jazz.

I always say that the problem with jazz accessibility is not the content of the music, it's people's ability to access it.

A lot of times, jazz musicians try to educate people. What other genre does that?

I just can't stand jazz/rock. I think it's the worst thing that's come down the river yet.

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

I think of jazz as being homage through innovation. Don't quote that as a definition, but it comes pretty close.

KKJZ is a very famous jazz station and there aren't many more around like them.

I was in band all the way through high school, and I played in jazz competitions all across Iowa.

What is put into the hands of B cannot be put into the hands of A.

I think when I feel I'm at my best is when I'm on stage, and it's my version of jazz because it's just riffing or something.

Jazz is not something that can be defined through blunt instruments. It is much more poetic than that.

Every conversation is a form of Jazz. The activity of instantaneous creation is as ordinary to us as breathing.

We mix a lot of genres - soul, pop, jazz - but we most agree on hip-hop.

The numerous ecstatic traditions - including free jazz and funk - have all been great inspirations.

When I was doing jazz concerts in America, I would use the biggest names I could find.

I lie around the floor with my cats Billy and Jazz or watch DVDs with my best friends.

Today Jazz music is performed & listened to by people of all ethnicity, backgrounds, ages & creeds.

I'm reserved, so I've always needed to find a way of opening up. Jazz helped me do that.

Coltrane would do what you'd get a Roland Pro Tools module to do but with a group of jazz musicians.

Jazz of the sort we play is a happy, extroverted music. You don't have to think about it too much.

Jazz, for me, is a closed circuit, like the term baroque in the world of classical music.

What I love about jazz is the improvisation, the fact that you never know what's going to happen next.

A Jazz man should be saying what he feels: humor, sadness, joy... all the things that humans have.

I love the sounds of Latin jazz, R&B, hip-hop, alternative, all that stuff. I'm a radio kid.

When I was a little kid I thought I would grow up to be black and sing jazz in nightclubs.

New Orleans is gumbo. You get so man types of things... jazz, folk, Zydeco.

This is what really makes real jazz musicians: people coming out with their own voice.

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.

[David] Bowie's last album "Blackstar" featured him backed by a jazz quartet.

Holy flowers floating in the air, were all these tired faces in the dawn of Jazz America.

I missed jazz, kind of. And by the time I came to it in life, it was too intimidating to enjoy thoroughly.

Jazz has been the voice of freedom for so many countries over the past half century.

I don't believe that jazz will ever really die. It's a nice way to express yourself.

I'm aware that a lot of what is happening in jazz has not had a very dynamic change in a long time.

'Amores Perros' is rock, '21 Grams' is jazz, 'Babel' is an opera, and 'Biutiful' is a requiem.

I listen to a lot of oldies stuff. Some Motown, Michael Jackson, jazz, etc.

When I was in the Pussycat Dolls, I did study jazz and pop, but Latin and ballroom were not at all in my world.

I do modern jazz and contemporary combined. I like to feel strong, flexible, and so there is stretching involved.

Into thy hands, O Lord. Into thy hands.

I started off with the flute and French horn, and then I was playing trumpet in the jazz band.

Clifford Brown was in the jazz circles considered to be probably the greatest trumpet player who ever lived.

The public, hearing pop music, is, without knowing it, also soaking up jazz.

Jazz was born out of the whiskey bottle, was raised on marijiana, and will expire on cocaine.