Top 1200 Jazz Musician Quotes & Sayings - Page 19
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Last updated on December 19, 2024.
The wonderful thing about Jazz is its willingness to take chances.
Growing up, I was very much interested in jazz music.
Unlike anything heard before. This is jazz for the 21st century.
There are wonderful things in Jazz, the improvisation, the liveliness, the being at one with the audience.
People are already worrying about the ball moving around and all that jazz.
Well, actually, I don't consider myself a jazz legend or anything.
The chief trouble with jazz is that there is not enough of it; some of it we have to listen to twice.
It was liberating to do comedy. It felt like playing in a jazz band.
The most sophisticated pop musician that I knew of and liked
was Paul McCartney.
My dad was a musician who went to Berklee, and he made me learn piano when I was five.
The longer you've been acting, normally, the better you are at it. As a musician, it doesn't work like that.
That's the thing about jazz: it's free flowing, it comes from your soul.
A musician's biography is written wherever he performs; everybody hears what he is playing.
I really wanted to just be a musician. I didn't want to be anything else, but I was funny and all that.
It was like an exponential weed. And people treated me as if I was an established musician. I wasn't.
Boxing is like jazz. The better it is, the less people appreciate it.
That's the gamble that you make when you decide to become a rock musician. It's totally unpredictable.
Every record, you've got more experiences to draw on as a writer and a musician.
Fight the tendency to become complacent and do one kind of music - that is the death of a musician.
Rock and roll mainly but I can play passable jazz also.
I think that one of the problems that jazz has is that it's so incestuous that it's starting to kill itself.
I have had some amazing experiences as a musician - even with my modest skills.
Shut up and let me see your jazz hands.
Fortune ought to be a National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master.
I teach jazz dancing and I can be a guest teacher whenever I want.
I don't know if I have enough guts to do a whole standard jazz record.
You will never know what the meaning of Jazz is if ask what it means.
Symphony musicians are not trained in improvising, certainly not in a jazz style.
Sometimes I'll be in circles, and I'll say I'm a jazz singer, and they have no idea what that means.
I know my own weaknesses as a human being, and as a musician, as a singer and as a woman.
And I played in jazz band as well during all three years in school.
If you go back to the roots of jazz, it was all about COLLECTIVE improvisation.
Thyagaraja was not a professional musician. He did not sing for situations. He was music himself.
I've been a jazz artist playing pop and R&B my entire career.
Jazz is played from the heart. You can even live by it. Always love it.
As a musician, you never understand why people connect with certain songs.
Every musician should announce the raga and the sahityam before performing.
I speak my mind and come from a place of conscience, as well as have fun as a musician.
As a musician, I hear the harmonic value of everything - I just enjoy music.
A musician's true talent is only tested through background music.
If I get an idea for a song, I have a melody for it. I'm a musician first. I'm not limited by the fretboard.
Colorism and racism don't stop when you're a musician or when you have wealth or when you're in any given position.
I always thought that I was an important musician. If you don't have that confidence, why would you go on and do it?
Jazz musicians are the coolest people on the planet. Can I have some cool?
This is one of the major purposes of soul and jazz music; to state what you feel.
New York is the dream world, the center of jazz and rock.
Jazz music is to be played sweet, soft, plenty rhythm.
As a musician, my job is incredibly easy, and it's a good one, but I've got to work at it occasionally.
My father was a musician and wanted me to study piano. I had no interest.
I find early jazz to be the most revolutionary music of its time.
I wasn't very worried about the Cold War; I was busy being a musician.
I can choose to be a serious musician, but the sex symbol part is not up to me.
Jazz, rock and roll, movies and comics are the culture of America.
Jazz is letting everybody do his or her thing with the music.
I'm a musician and I'm really blessed, because in my life if I can hold the sticks, I can play.
I was really falling in love with jazz and dedicating myself in that direction.
New York is the dream world, the center of jazz and rock
I always felt that the musician's job was to provide an alternative source of information.
Nothing says “i came here to win” like jazz hands
[Louis Armstrong] was the only musician who ever lived, who can't be replaced by someone.
