Top 1200 Jazz Musician Quotes & Sayings - Page 14

Jazz will be the classical music of the future.

I did jazz dance for a few years.

To put it in musician's terms, my chops are good.

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

I have a theory that musicians recognize each other and if they are destined to collaborate together they will. Mainly, they recognize each other according to the class they belong to. If they are punk-rocker kids from the neighborhood, they are going form a band. If they happen to be musicians that are going to play in pubs and restaurants, they are going to recognize each other, form a band and play together. If it's about musicians that are playing jazz and are going to jazz festivals, for e.g., then they are going to meet and work together.

I know I'm a strong performer. I'm not an evolved musician.

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

I'm a musician. Anything I've done as an actor has come from that.

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

It takes an intelligent ear to listen to Jazz.

Jazz is about freedom within discipline.

The sexiest woman musician is Alicia Keys.

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

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

Everybody in all countries tries to play jazz.

I'm not a musician, but I play music. So it's a strange thing.

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

To most jazz critics I was basically Kenny G.

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

I never pictured myself as a professional musician.

Playing jazz in restaurants is too stereotypical.

Jazz is the art of thinking out loud.

I've never really considered myself a musician.

I really didn't intend to be a musician when I left Japan.

An explorer of the universe is sexier than a musician.

I have always wanted to become a musician and a singer.

Jazz music is an intensified feeling of nonchalance.

I'd rather be a musician than a rock star.

The sign of a mature musician is knowing what not to play.

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

I'm not a musician making words to go with my music.

Jazz never ends... it just continues.

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

Jazz isn't dead. It just smells funny.

I think jazz is a wonderful learning tool.

Someday, I hope to do a jazz club tour.

Tony Bennett is an iconic jazz legend.

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

Jazz speaks for life. This is triumphant music.

I always wanted to sing a jazz record.

Don't clap I'm not a jazz band for Christ's sake.

Jazz can be a blank canvas full of possibilities.

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

For me, I was a musician long before I was an actor.

Always as a musician you must have one thing you do well.

I'm a great songwriter, but I'm not the most talented musician.

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

Jazz is one of the least learnable art forms.

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

A musician can get lost to what he is in the session busines as it was.

Jazz is the folk music of the machine age.

A jazz beat is a dynamic changing rhythm.

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

Jazz is like blues with a shot of heroin!

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

But I needed to prove to everyone that I was a serious musician.

I'd love to work with Prince. He's such an amazing musician.

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

You have to go out and learn jazz by playing.

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