Top 1200 Jazz Improvisation Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

When I create I don't think in technical or mathematical terms until the idea is formulated Musical composition is formulated in improvisation. Once a pianist like myself sits down and begins to play and start thinking about what I am writing all of a sudden a little tune will emerge, a little spot light and I'll go, "That's interesting."

I love jeans, T-shirts, and things you can jazz up and down, a bit of a mish-mash.

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

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

My mum loves jazz, and together we listen to loads of Chet Baker back home.

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

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

Once the jazz musician learns all the fundamentals they can keep track of a lot of choices in an instant.

In Sweden we have a jazz festival, and I would try to see all these people like Angie Stone there when I was younger.

I'm like a painter who has had his different periods: jazz, soul, pop, psychedelia, varietes.

I must say, I don't think there's any more challenging music out there in jazz than what we're doing.

My passion for gaming is well-known among both the Utah Jazz and my team in France.

I listen to Neil Young and jazz and classical stations and, if my girlfriend's driving, it tends to be Hall & Oates.

It pulled me like a magnet, jazz did, because it was a way that I could express myself.

I would love to make a real jazz album someday because I never have. But that's something I'm not in a rush to do.

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

Today jazz is still very much alive. Everywhere I go there's a new generation of musicians.

I started as a jazz musician, not a singer, then I became a rock 'n' roll artist with Aphrodite's Child.

I started playing jazz by slowing down Tal Farlow records and analyzing his runs

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

I feel there has to be a certain amount of improvisation as I'm writing, which means any idea or any commitment to a project is risky. It involves time; it involves gathering of material, and sometimes it just doesn't work. Sometimes it does. As I'm starting out on a project, I can't tell if it will click or not.

I know of musicians who have played together for decades who hate each other. The Modern Jazz Quartet for one.

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

We used to go to the jazz fest in Kansas City. And my mother and father took me.

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

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

Jazz stopped being creative in the early '80s. After your acoustic era, where you had the likes of the Miles Davis Quintet, when it gets to the '70s it started being jazz fusion where you had more electronic stuff happening, then in the '80s they started trying to bring back the acoustic stuff, like Branford Marsalis and the Wynton Marsalis & Eric Clapton sextet. It started dying down from there. Miles was still around in the '80s and he was still being creative; he was playing Michael Jackson songs and changing sounds, but a lot of people were still trying to regurgitate the old stuff.

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

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

It's a mystery to me why everybody doesn't love jazz. I've never been able to figure that out.

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

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

Western, jazz, folk, or tribal music, whatever the form, they all have the same sapta swaras as the basis.

I've played with jazz and toyed with it when I used to live near the St. Nicholas Pub in Harlem.

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

My dad was really into avant garde jazz: Archie Shepp, John Coltrane and Pharoah Sanders.

Generally speaking I would say I enjoy the smaller films more because there's a less sense of pressure and often the material is more unusual. But in "Iron Man" it was kind of like both worlds colliding because there was a lot of improvisation, not that we improv-ed in the scenes but to discover the actual scenes themselves.

I have tons of jazz records: John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis. I could go on and on.

Flights are a good way to catch up on podcasts, but I'll listen to some jazz to fall asleep.

I wanted to keep pushing the musical ideas I had about jazz, music from Africa and the Caribbean.

If it wasn't for hustlers, gangsters & gamblers there'd be no Jazz. Wasn't middle~class who said Let's go hear Bird tonight.

There's the tradition in jazz of having the Battle of the Bands, and you do not want to get your head cut when you're playing.

I cut myself off from the mainstream of jazz. It stood me in good stead later on, as a musician.

Jazz is an art form that depends on its antecedents, there must be respect for the people that have gone before.

I grew up doing tap, jazz, and ballet, so I understand rhythm and movement and performing.

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

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.

I loved music from the age of eight. Jazz and blues. But also Little Richard and Elvis Presley.

I worked in a band a long time. As we got older, we became more aware of soul and jazz.

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

Me as an artist, I've ventured off into doing all types of music. I'll do a jazz album, you know what I mean.

I still love the whole history of jazz. The old things sound better than ever.

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

I keep reverting (to Duke Ellington), he to me is the greatest ever and my favorite jazz philosopher, as such.

By and large, jazz has always been like the kind of a man you wouldn't want your daughter to associate with.

Well, I guess my unease with that is... I'm always a little uneasy with that phrase - smooth jazz, as opposed to what?

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

I didn't really like jazz that much and was unhappy in that genre. It was what I was doing just to get by and pay rent.

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

Jazz will endure just as long people hear it through their feet instead of their brains.