Top 1200 Jazz Musician Quotes & Sayings - Page 16
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Last updated on December 19, 2024.
Louis Armstrong is jazz. He represents what the music is all about.
I've always felt like an imposter, in the whole, as a musician.
See, I have two selves in me - a musician and a composer.
Life is a lot like jazz... it's best when you improvise.
What are we singers but the silver-voiced messengers of the poet and the musician?
I'm a working travelling musician, but just on a bigger scale.
I actually find a lot of parallels in jazz and cartooning.
I'm not really a musician. I'm a performer and I love rock 'n' roll.
I think jazz has given me freedom with my voice.
I've got a lot of friends with whom I discuss jazz.
I have a large collection of biographies about jazz musicians.
The soul of the great musician can only be expressed in music.
Jazz is restless. It won't stay put & it never will.
An entire composition written in jazz could not live.
Blues is to jazz what yeast is to bread--without it, it's flat.
I'm not a trained musician or singer, but I can turn out a song.
I don't have a definition of Jazz. You're just supposed to know it when you hear it.
Jazz groups have to make a living any way.
Jazz has provided the framework for all the other stuff that I've done.
If you're a musician, there's no instrument that can be withheld from you. If you're drawn to it, develop the talent for it.
To me, jazz is the closest thing to insanity that there is in music.
Kenny Burrell is the grand master of jazz guitar.
Being a musician is a job - it is just a really fun one!
As a musician to hang out with a politician, I think it's disgusting.
The musician who always plays on the same string is laughed at.
I'm a musician first and sight has never had anything to do with it.
'Pinata' is a great rap record for jazz fans.
I consider myself a musician. I like to play everything.
I am not, and have no interest in being, a musician of any kind.
Jazz is not gonna be a dinosaur and stay around in one form.
I mean, I don't even think of myself as a musician, really.
In a lot of groups, you can change a musician, and it doesn't mean anything.
All bad jazz sounds like Woody Woodpecker.
I lived at the greatest time in the history of mankind to be a musician.
I just hope I'm remembered as a good blues musician.
What I came back to is that jazz is a music to be played and not to be intellectualized on.
I love, you know, a lot of jazz, John Coltrane.
You don't rehearse jazz to death to get the camera angles.
I love Marvin Gaye. I like jazz and all that stuff.
Life is a lot like jazz. It's best when you improvise.
Diplomacy is like jazz: endless variations on a theme.
One thing about playing the real jazz is that you can't count it.
Jazz was home. It created a hunger within me.
It's important for me to be with a musician or someone who has a creative mind.
My life as a professional musician is a joyless exercise in futility.
The only way a musician can express feelings is playing.
I'm not saying I'm the bee's knees. But I am a legitimate musician.
Jazz is an art that takes decades to appreciate and understand.
My personal trainer is an ex-dancer so we do a lot of ballet and jazz.
There's no rule that you have to like Henry Rollins the musician or the actor.
Jazz musicians, in a way, are nerds. We are so in our world.
After I exhausted the blues thing, I got into jazz.
I also like Western classical music and jazz.
As a musician, it's only natural that my music mirrors my life.
Jazz has endured because it doesn't have a beginning or an ending. It's a moment.
My father was a cocky, long-haired musician, a songwriter.
One thing that you hope for when you want to be a musician is that you have that recognizable sound.
Jazz is the result of the energy stored up in America.
You never stop trying to make progress as a musician.
There's a certain phraseology involved in jazz, and I've moved away from that.
