Top 1200 Jazz Records Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

As long as there are people trying to play music in a sincere way, there will be Jazz.

I have grown up singing Rabindra Sangeet and when I was 16, I started training in jazz.

Even if I could, I wouldn't want to undo the transformation of jazz into a sophisticated art music.

I like jazz but actually I didn't love it enough to study it for four years. It was boring.

I am a big music guy. Hip-hop, R&B, old school, jazz.

Until I was in 6th grade, I took ballet, jazz, tap, and hip hop.

Jazz Improvisation means that practice is not as straightforward as it would be when you simply have a score to play.

The theory is that you don't play a song the same way twice because it's jazz. That's where I'm coming from.

Without the jazz influence, the Black Sabbath drumming would be very different.

All of the most popular music of the '30s and '40s were deeply informed by jazz.

George Benson conquered many different genres, from pop ballads to R&B to jazz.

One thing I like about jazz, kid, is that I don't know what's going to happen next. Do you?

Jazz musicians have always tended to have cult followings, which is pretty wonderful.

Records and achievements are made to be broken.

Jazz vision is a wordless conversation between musical notes and visual expressions.

The bad jazz that a cat blows wails long after he’s cut out.

I think jazz and comic books are probably the two uniquely American art forms.

jazz is the expression of America's romantic self, its sensual potency, its lyrical force.

The historian records, but the novelist creates.

I'd like to be a jazz singer, but I couldn't possibly do it; nobody would want me, anyway.

Jazz does not belong to one race or culture, but is a gift that America has given the world.

Learn licks and songs from records.

Are you stalking me, Mr. Fulton?" The idea both amused and horrified Jazz.

Free form jazz means absolutely nothing to me. Because there are no boundaries.

Dizzy, Duke and Charlie Parker were the greatest jazz legends of all time.

I think everybody has to kind of decide what the word 'jazz' means to them, and that's fine.

Even though I'm a jazz-trained drummer, I cut my teeth playing rock.

Since about 1980 Kenny Werner has been one of jazz’s unsung heroes

Jazz is neither specific repertoire, nor academic exercise... but a way of life.

All my records and videos were groundbreaking.

We went to see all the shows. American musical theater and jazz were very big.

Like democracy itself, jazz has structure, but within it you can say almost anything.

I listen to a lot of jazz. I'm a big Sinatra geek. I love Chet Baker.

The jazz boom was goin' on then so there was a lot happenin' in New York at that time.

Anyone who understands Jazz knows that you can't understand it. It's too complicated. That's what's so simple about it.

We've made records for years on a shoestring.

The day of the great jazz improviser who doesn't know how to read music is over.

My style is a little quirky. I can't play as fast as most professional jazz players.

I think I understand what bands want, just from having made records myself. I understand what it takes to get a good vocal sound, or to make people comfortable in the studio. From minor things like their headphone mix - and if a singer's singing, how they should hear themselves - to how to make people feel that they're getting exactly what they want. All those things, I think, are an advantage, especially the part about having done it myself. I'm not just an engineer who records the sounds well. I'm not afraid to take chances.

Jazz is like the universe: it's been expanding since its creation and it's connected to everything.

To me, making records isn't work.

Nadal is going to break all the records.

I have to make rock records occasionally.

Charlie Parker lifted jazz music off the dance floor and into the stratosphere!

I am friends with the most amazing musicians that can do pop, rap, punk and jazz.

The enthusiasm, the adulation for us as jazz artists, in Kiev and Odessa was really heartwarming.

I love good rock'n'roll, blues and jazz, gospel, and a little reggae.

New York seems conducted by jazz, animated by it. It is essentially a city of rhythm.

I think if you listen to our records, they come at different points in your life. When people say to me that Stars records have themes, I think what they mean is we write songs - or try to write songs - that are timeless. We try to write songs that catch you at the right time in your life, and that you can hold on to. We write kitchen sink songs. If you're doing the dishes or you're driving to your mom's funeral, or if you're getting over having done MDMA and you feel sad, you can listen to Stars because we're not going to demand of you that you be cool.

I wasn't a trained Mickey Mouse club performer. I played in jazz clubs and restaurants.

Reviews are all bullshit, because they always change. When House of 1000 Corpses came out, all the reviews were awful. It was impossible to find a review better than "The worst movie ever made." And now I'll see more-modern magazines, and sometimes they'll re-review things, and I'll read this great review for it. It's the same thing with White Zombie! People talk about "Oh, White Zombie, these classic records. Why don't you do them now?" Everyone hated those records when they came out! The reviews were terrible.

We are serious about our music here in Philadelphia, and jazz has meant a lot to this city.

In 1994, I started touring again and I recorded two albums for Chesky Jazz.

Y'know, I don't like jazz much. I'll put it on once in a while and listen, and I'll appreciate it.

For sure I want to achieve records.

If jazz has to be termed as a wave, then music is a sea, but if the reflectors in the water is the chord.

I'm a classically trained jazz pianist - I've been playing since I was 3 years old.

Making records is not brain surgery.

I have been using small teardrop jazz picks since I was, like, 14.

I don't want to sound as if I'm doing something tremendously special. But I am a jazz fan.