Top 1200 Jazz Improvisation Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

I learned from my uncle that jazz, like symphony music, was built to last.

Jazz has the ability to absorb & transform influences from diverse musical styles.

When I was coming up, a lot of serious jazz players couldn't stand funk.

I am comfortable with anything I sing: jazz, gospel, classical. It doesn't matter. I can do it all.

As a matter of fact, we put it down because we wanted to be jazz pickers.

The first thing is, jazz is one of the few things to let you know that there is a God and there is a creation.

Jazz music will continue to thrive, possibly in unexpected ways.

A friend told me he'd risen above jazz. I leave him there.

I was a jazz drummer, and it was my life for a while: what I lived and breathed every day.

I became a jazz fan quite early and never went off the path thereafter.

I think that's what I love about jazz is that you can do what you want, and you're allowed to mess up.

Change is always happening. That's one of the wonderful things about jazz music.

I listen to instrumental jazz and bluegrass, but aside from my AM workout, I have no rituals.

For me, jazz will always be the soundtrack of the civil rights movement.

I still find it hard to believe that the whole era of jazz is over.

For me, jazz is an understanding of music, rather than an end in itself.

I like to go hear jazz late-night up in Harlem.

Jazz translates the moment into a sense of inspiration for not only the musicians but for the listeners.

The most common misconception about me is that I'm basically a jazz singer.

Film in the 20th century, it's the American art form, like jazz.

I have been influenced by music. I grew up listening to blues, jazz and all.

Bebop and hip-hop, in so many ways, they're connected. A lot of rappers remind me so much of bebop guys in terms of improvisation, beats and rhymes. My dream is to see hip-hop incorporated in education. You've got the youth of the world in the palm of your hand.

He's not a performer, he's not a composer, he's not even a musician, but Norman Granz is Mr. Jazz.

I like all kinds of music, though I tend to prefer jazz and classics.

Jazz is like a great blues band that fell down the stairs

Jazz is not the format where I want to stay, but it really is a starting point for me.

I think Wes Montgomery is the greatest jazz guitarist that ever lived.

I never studied jazz technically; I just know and love the music.

Astronomers, like burglars and jazz musicians, operate best at night.

I started in New Orleans music and played all through the history of jazz.

Jazz, like leadership, combines the unpredictability of the future with the gifts of individuals.

The jazz trombone is a magical experience particularly to hear and listen too.

I've been invited to do a trio with a fantastic jazz guitarist and a harmonica player.

I hate Stanley Clark, but I have to admit he's playing Jazz whether I like it or not.

Jazz is a racist musical form invented by whites to enslave blacks.

I believe that blues and jazz are the two uniquely American contributions into music.

Yeah, I grew up playing lots of jazz music in school.

If you're in jazz and more than ten people like you, you're labeled commercial.

I never had a problem moving between jazz and hip-hop.

Oscar Peterson is the greatest living influence on jazz pianists today.

I'm not going to play funk licks on a jazz album. That makes no sense.

I don't understand why people don't use improvisation, especially in comedy films, but also, for me, you get more naturalism, and that's why I like the naturalistic performances and strange rhythms and the way that people genuinely interact captured rather than sort of very mannered performances.

I wanted to play some more grown-up music - jazz.

You can't make jazz without using certain elements of Latin music.

I feel like I'm a torchbearer for jazz, fostering its tradition but its future, too.

I don't want to be a total moron and be just known as the jazz-handed judge.

The beauty of jazz is that it's malleable. People are addressing it to suit their own personalities.

It's something that jazz has gotten away from, and it's unfortunate. Players aren't physical anymore.

I knew even if I'm a cowboy, I'm going to be involved in jazz in some way.

What I'm doing, I prefer to call that jazz, because it is a beautiful word - I love it.

Scott Feiner is a soulful magnet for the fusion of Brazilian and jazz music.

As far as I'm concerned, blues and jazz are the great American contributions to music.

I've been invited to do a trio with a fantastic jazz guitarist and a harmonica player

Jazz has to work. It has to play with the audience and with the marketplace. I think that is relevant to business.

It is Jazz's very nature to change, to develop & adapt to the circumstances of its environment.

Hopefully, we learn to appreciate hip-hop here so that it doesn't go the way of jazz.

I've never listened to jazz. It's just not something I ever paid attention to.

I listen to jazz, Western classical, contemporary, Bollywood and heavy metal.

You need better technique than I have to play jazz, but what you have to do is the same thing, isn't it?

The law don't like jazz clubs. No one wants anything to do with that kind of trouble.