Top 1200 Jazz Records Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

Jazz musicians are the coolest people on the planet. Can I have some cool?

Jazz washes away the dust of every day life.

I think I represent a more left-wing view of what jazz is.

Today, because I want to be gentle on my back, I listen to jazz.

Shut up and let me see your jazz hands.

In South Louisiana, every single thing we do is jazz or zydeco.

And I played in jazz band as well during all three years in school.

It was liberating to do comedy. It felt like playing in a jazz band.

Being grown up is boring. Besides, I don't get jazz.

Jazz, isn't that just a series of mistakes diguised as musical composition?

It is rare that even a jazz musician finds an individual voice.

Why can't jazz musicians just leave a melody alone?

In blues, classical and jazz, you get more revered with age.

I was really falling in love with jazz and dedicating myself in that direction.

I think I represent a more left-wing view of what jazz is

There's an ecstatic side to writing. It's like jazz. It just has a life.

You will never know what the meaning of Jazz is if ask what it means.

Nothing says “i came here to win” like jazz hands

That's the thing about jazz: it's free flowing, it comes from your soul.

The chief trouble with jazz is that there is not enough of it; some of it we have to listen to twice.

Jazz is such a powerful cultural statement that it's almost as if it's intertwined with society.

If there is one thing I think I have accomplished, it's that I always thought of myself as a very literal songwriter, and as I look at some of those older records, I don't hear it now the way I did when I was 20. I think it is undeniable that the songs have become more instantaneously descriptive and literal. I'd like the songs to be more storytelling, but also have the turns of phrase within them that would hopefully distance my writing from the pack. I feel like on those older records there are a lot of attempts at clever turns of phrase.

This is one of the major purposes of soul and jazz music; to state what you feel.

My strength is to communicate with an audience and to know what jazz singing is capable of.

I have to plead basic ignorance of most new jazz artists here.

My music isn't anything but me. It has jazz in it, and rock'n'roll, and it has an urgency to it.

I don't know if I have enough guts to do a whole standard jazz record.

New York is the dream world, the center of jazz and rock.

New York is the dream world, the center of jazz and rock

In college, I was able to be the vocalist for the jazz band at Arkansas State.

Blues and jazz pulled me away from what was left of my family.

There are wonderful things in Jazz, the improvisation, the liveliness, the being at one with the audience.

Unlike anything heard before. This is jazz for the 21st century.

For years, Jazz At The Philharmonic albums were the only ones of their kind.

I've been a massive obsessive about jazz singers all my life.

I think that one of the problems that jazz has is that it's so incestuous that it's starting to kill itself.

Jazz is an idea that is more powerful than the details of its history.

[Jazz singing] is like pornography. You can't say what it is, but you know it when you see it.

Fortune ought to be a National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master.

Jazz is a beautiful woman whose older brother is a policeman.

I teach jazz dancing and I can be a guest teacher whenever I want.

For me, promotional thing about some new album coming out destroys a lot of the excitement of making records. Records, movies, books - they're not supposed to be like math books. The purpose of them is to kind of take us out of ourselves and give us some sort of alternate experience or respite. To try to maximize the relationship of listening to a record through promotion is like experiencing driving a car by reading about stimulus programs. It kind of defeats the purpose.

The wonderful thing about Jazz is its willingness to take chances.

Rock and roll mainly but I can play passable jazz also.

If I'm going to be a jazz player, I need to understand Miles Davis.

Jazz was more of a tool for me to use to enhance my musicality.

There is a modern take on certain things you can do that, to me, is still jazz.

Jazz is played from the heart. You can even live by it. Always love it.

I listen to jazz, pop, rock, R&B. It really doesn't matter to me.

Symphony musicians are not trained in improvising, certainly not in a jazz style.

Jazz, rock and roll, movies and comics are the culture of America.

A lot of jazz is like that; it sells over a period of time.

Phil Robson is a disturbingly good jazz guitar player!

If you go back to the roots of jazz, it was all about COLLECTIVE improvisation.

People are already worrying about the ball moving around and all that jazz.

I do after-school ballet and also hip-hop and jazz.

Well, actually, I don't consider myself a jazz legend or anything.

Jazz is letting everybody do his or her thing with the music.

Jazz music is to be played sweet, soft, plenty rhythm.

A jazz musician is a juggler who uses harmonies instead of oranges.