Top 1200 Jazz Records Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

I love old R&B records.

When we started the band, I was really like, "We just want to make a lot of records" - not quite unlike Guided By Voices' schedule. I've always thought that our live thing is what we do best, and having a really robust, big catalog makes for the most interesting live band - especially with people, at this point, traveling to see us night after night. For us to have almost 100 songs to pull from is a really cool thing. The sets can be different. They can be invigorating on an intellectual level. I definitely hope to continue to release records at an accelerated pace.

Jazz has to work. It has to play with the audience and with the marketplace. I think that is relevant to business.

In all honesty, I'm not interested in records.

I became a jazz fan quite early and never went off the path thereafter.

I learned from my uncle that jazz, like symphony music, was built to last.

All records are made to be broken.

I never studied jazz technically; I just know and love the music.

I've always gravitated toward technical music in general. I love jazz fusion.

My first guitar, a Fender Jazz Master, I traded it in for a Les Paul Deluxe.

I don't think about records.

I don't ever consciously change gears when I play jazz or classical. It's all music.

I do not chase after the records.

North Texas is by far the most serious minded jazz program I have encountered.

To me, Bill's musical heart is in Earthworks, in the jazz they are playing, in the acoustic kit.

I think Wes Montgomery is the greatest jazz guitarist that ever lived.

Records come and go.

For me writing is a question of finding a certain rhythm. I compare it to the rhythms of jazz.

At a time when individualism is becoming an endangered species, jazz represents a celebration of the individual.

I knew even if I'm a cowboy, I'm going to be involved in jazz in some way.

All records are not made to be broken.

I listen to classical music very much. There's a lot of jazz that I don't enjoy listening to.

I've never listened to jazz. It's just not something I ever paid attention to.

For me, jazz is an understanding of music, rather than an end in itself.

I've been invited to do a trio with a fantastic jazz guitarist and a harmonica player.

I wanted to play some more grown-up music - jazz.

GusGus records are flawless.

Jazz translates the moment into a sense of inspiration for not only the musicians but for the listeners.

I don't want to be a total moron and be just known as the jazz-handed judge.

...to me if it's anything, jazz is a verb-it's more like a process than it is a thing.

I feel like I'm a torchbearer for jazz, fostering its tradition but its future, too.

The Old Testament records the preparation for the coming of the Messiah. The Gospels record the coming of the Messiah, Jesus Christ our Lord. The book of Acts records the propagation of the gospel (the good news) concerning Jesus Christ. The Epistles (letters) explain the gospel and its implications for our lives. The book of Revelation anticipates and describes the second coming of Jesus Christ and the establishment of His eternal kingdom. From beginning to end, the Bible glorifies Jesus Christ and centers on Him. Its Christ-centeredness is one of its wonderful features.

Records are made to be broken.

Records just happen.

I want my records to be the most magnificent and glorious-sounding records, but also want them to be the most intense and fragile. And I want that all in the same ten-second bit of music. And it just takes a while to get there, and I don't write the songs and then go and record them, I write in the studio. So it takes a while to kind of piece them together and know that that's what I want it to be like. And I constantly throw the bits up in the air and see how they land, and eventually they kind of keep landing in the same place and that's where it stays.

I was introduced to jazz, and that's become a basic concern and passion of mine ever since.

I'm constantly buying records.

I can't stand making records.

I'm really not this jazz traditionalist guy you've been making me out to be all of these years.

I'm not someone who clings on to records.

Jazz has always been a melting pot of influences and I plan to incorporate them all.

I am not a jazz singer. I wouldn't place myself on that footing. I wouldn't even enter that arena.

The main thing about the word jazz, is that it's very limiting to what people are doing.

Scott Feiner is a soulful magnet for the fusion of Brazilian and jazz music.

It's something that jazz has gotten away from, and it's unfortunate. Players aren't physical anymore.

As a matter of fact, we put it down because we wanted to be jazz pickers.

'Moffou' is one of my favorite records.

A lot of people don't know about music, but buy records. A lot of people that know about music can't afford to buy records.

I used to sing in jazz clubs with a friend until she went another way.

I listen to jazz, Western classical, contemporary, Bollywood and heavy metal.

Jazz is music made by and for people who have chosen to feel good in spite of conditions.

I've never chased records.

I love to sell records, but that's not what I'm into.

You can always accuse my records of being harrowing or dark or bleak. There is processing of trauma on my records and they contain a lot of healing. As a person who has been watching other's rage for years, instead of having my own tantrums, I keep the feelings inside until I can find a way of making them into music. The songs are like healing spells and it really works for me. When I really do a good job on a song, it gets rid of a weight. As far as hope goes, there is hope that you can heal through processing stuff and make it through to the other side. That's all I can hope for.

I listen to jazz about three hours a day. I love Louis Armstrong.

Jazz has the ability to absorb & transform influences from diverse musical styles.

You need better technique than I have to play jazz, but what you have to do is the same thing, isn't it?

My dad listened to a load of jazz - Mahavishnu, Weather Report, Herbie Hancock.

I listen to instrumental jazz and bluegrass, but aside from my AM workout, I have no rituals.

That's kind of like how jazz is sometimes. You're out there predicting the future, and no one believes you.