Top 1200 Jazz Musician Quotes & Sayings - Page 18
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Last updated on December 19, 2024.
My music isn't anything but me. It has jazz in it, and rock'n'roll, and it has an urgency to it.
A musician cannot move others unless he, too, is moved.
At the end of the day, I'm a New Orleans musician. Whatever that means.
Living in L.A. has been really good for me as a creator and musician.
The concern of the musician is to play the music. It is there demanding to be given sound to.
You can't be both a painter and a musician and master anything. You can't. And live a life.
For years, Jazz At The Philharmonic albums were the only ones of their kind.
I'm not good enough, technically, to be a classic musician. I lack discipline.
I listen to jazz, pop, rock, R&B. It really doesn't matter to me.
There is a modern take on certain things you can do that, to me, is still jazz.
I've had the pleasure of playing with the baddest Jazz cats on the planet.
I have always felt I was more accurately a Hard Rock musician.
I've been a massive obsessive about jazz singers all my life.
Jazz is such a powerful cultural statement that it's almost as if it's intertwined with society.
In college, I was able to be the vocalist for the jazz band at Arkansas State.
It's really hard to make a living as a musician. It's almost impossible.
My strength is to communicate with an audience and to know what jazz singing is capable of.
I do after-school ballet and also hip-hop and jazz.
I am working on 'Bombay Velvet'. The music for it is jazz from the '60s.
When you're a musician and you break new ground it resonates into the common consciousness.
Why can't jazz musicians just leave a melody alone?
Jazz is a beautiful woman whose older brother is a policeman.
I think all musicians should understand that you have chosen not to be a soldier but a musician.
Love, the supreme musician, is always playing in our souls
You can never learn it all and I hope to continue my growth as a person and a musician
You can never learn it all and I hope to continue my growth as a person and a musician.
Jazz, isn't that just a series of mistakes diguised as musical composition?
Every musician liked Peggy Lee, but not the general public.
(For songwriters) Development of your facility as a musician is also important.
Today, because I want to be gentle on my back, I listen to jazz.
Cameron Esposito is a musician and podcaster from the States and she's hilarious.
I think every touring musician sacrifices aspects of their life to do it.
Jazz is an idea that is more powerful than the details of its history.
Virtually every writer I know would rather be a musician.
I was a musician first, the whole DJ-ing came after.
I have to plead basic ignorance of most new jazz artists here.
Phil Robson is a disturbingly good jazz guitar player!
In South Louisiana, every single thing we do is jazz or zydeco.
I think I represent a more left-wing view of what jazz is
A lot of jazz is like that; it sells over a period of time.
There's an ecstatic side to writing. It's like jazz. It just has a life.
Blues and jazz pulled me away from what was left of my family.
Being grown up is boring. Besides, I don't get jazz.
Being a musician in Texas had its own set of risks.
If you want to be a better musician, hang out with a computer coder.
And a musician has to learn to be frugal and to carefully manage financial affairs
When I'm dead, I want to be remembered as a musician of some worth and substance.
If I'm going to be a jazz player, I need to understand Miles Davis.
Anybody who loves jazz has a little bit of snob in them.
I'm not trying to save the world. As a musician and artist, it just ain't me.
Jazz washes away the dust of every day life.
I think I represent a more left-wing view of what jazz is.
You can't stay the same. If you're a musician and a singer, you have to change, that's the way it works.
I consider myself more of a producer and a musician than a DJ.
[Jazz singing] is like pornography. You can't say what it is, but you know it when you see it.
Being a musician is quite cerebral - there's a lot of sitting around.
It was like a musician playing notes. Everything we trained worked.
In blues, classical and jazz, you get more revered with age.
One of the great moments of my life was when I could write musician on my passport.
Jazz was more of a tool for me to use to enhance my musicality.
