Top 1200 Jazz Quotes & Sayings - Page 16
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Last updated on December 11, 2024.
Sometimes you need to stand with your nose to the window and have a good look at jazz. And I've done that on many occasions.
Jazz voices that unvanquishable, natural will toward creaativity and self-expression, depite everything, in the here and now.
There's no future without the past and anybody who doesn't really understand where jazz has come from has no right to try to direct where it's going.
My novels and poems are meant to be read aloud. That's why jazz musicians have been able to adapt my stuff.
I love dancing, actually. My mother taught children's dance, ballet, tap, jazz...I'm very flexible.
If Music is a Place -- then Jazz is the City, Folk is the Wilderness, Rock is the Road, Classical is a Temple.
All the folks I play with come from jazz backgrounds or at least appreciate spontaneity within the parameters of a pop song.
I wanted to keep pushing the musical ideas I had about jazz, music from Africa and the Caribbean.
I take every lesson in the book: singing, acting, guitar, piano, jazz, organ and tap-dancing.
Some kids went to the movies for escape. We found it with jazz. This is where we got religion. It was a kind of raw spiritual anarchy.
I was blessed to work with The Jazz Messengers when the two piano players were Keith Jarrett and Chick Corea.
It pulled me like a magnet, jazz did, because it was a way that I could express myself.
Great music - say jazz - has that inventive, improvisational quality that tells us something about life.
Jazz drummers traditionally are not always prepared to just hold down the beat; it's like they're soloing the whole time.
Coltrane was moving out of jazz into something else. And certainly Miles Davis was doing the same thing.
I wore a $30 vintage wedding dress for my 8th birthday in an underground jazz club in Seattle. This was what I wanted.
In the early days of jazz, it was ensemble music: everybody playing all together. Nobody really stood out.
I did ballet, jazz and flamenco from when I was five years old. And my professional career started with dancing in musicals.
Sure, I could have lots of people who do the cooking, the driving, all that jazz - but I would be unhappy. I wouldn't want my children raised that way.
I started to play Jazz music in my early teens. A boyfriend brought records over, so I listened to everything
It's one of the greatest festivals in the world. New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Fest is the best all-around... It's an honor to be closing it.
I never thought Jazz was meant to be a museum piece like other dead things once considered artistic.
I think people never hear what they say, and speech is a mocking sound instead of a jazz concert.
Western, jazz, folk, or tribal music, whatever the form, they all have the same sapta swaras as the basis.
Here in England we live at a slower pace, have more time to enjoy things - like good jazz.
There's the tradition in jazz of having the Battle of the Bands, and you do not want to get your head cut when you're playing.
Whoever invented smooth jazz, man, I wanna kill 'em: You're turning an art form into a hooker.
The worst thing about the life of a jazz musician on the road is getting to the gig. Once you're there and playing, it's marvelous.
Jazz is a democratic musical form. We take our respective instruments & collectively create a thing of beauty.
I have a sketch of an idea and I never really talk about: perhaps do another jazz record, but with other elements involved.
Many people forget that Jazz, no matter what form it takes, must come from the heart as well as the mind.
It quickly becomes apparent that in the gray area between jazz, R&B and soul, Tony Adamo is one of the top voices.
I could do without 'cool' publications calling me 'mom jazz.' But I laughed all the way to the bank, baby.
I can't imagine my life without the extraordinary bebop jazz revolution in New York in late '40s and '50s.
I can turn on some jazz guitarist, and he won't do a thing for me, if he's not playing electrically. But Jeff Beck's great to listen to.
Jazz is such a living art form. It happens right in the moment. You weave a story by changing certain elements and components.
Joe Sample was one of my heroes. I met him at the Curacao Jazz festival, and I fanned out like he was the Beatles!
I've done all different kinds of genres - doo-wop, pop, funk, gospel, country, jazz, you name it.
I think jazz is actually quite unforgiving in its disdain for nostalgia. It demands creativity and change at its highest level.
Many jazz artists go to L.A. seeking a more comfortable life and then they really stop playing.
Next to jazz music, there is nothing that lifts the spirit and strengthens the soul more than a good bowl of chili.
[My wife Margot] was the - I guess, the coordinator or the production manager [of The Jazz Review], and we got to know each other and we married.
I've purposely made my music to be challenging and different. There's some electronics, R&B, blues, Motown, country, jazz and lots of soul.
I must say, I don't think there's any more challenging music out there in jazz than what we're doing.
My dad was really into avant garde jazz: Archie Shepp, John Coltrane and Pharoah Sanders.
I worked in a band a long time. As we got older, we became more aware of soul and jazz.
My vocal influences are a lot of jazz singers: Billie Holiday, Julie London, they had this tenderness to their voice.
Wynton Marsalis' skills have grown as fast as his ambition, and he is the most ambitious younger composer in Jazz.
Say That! is an iron fist upside the mushy head of smooth jazz, and Grant Geissman's defiant declaration of independence.
Jazz flute's funny. And I'm a big Latin music fan, Tito Puente, Tina Cruz, all that stuff.
When I started recording, I thought I'd be able to do all kinds of records: jazz, country, dance - and I've always wanted to do a gospel album.
I love that [ late-50s Verve recordings] - to me, that's the epitome of vocal jazz. It's my favorite style and era of it.
It just so happens that my oldest and best friend is Bob James, the Grammy-winning great jazz pianist!
So the whole basis for jazz music is based on the fact that the bass player could not play his instrument.
The jazz I love is sweet and pure with raw elements, which is exactly what the good hip-hop is doing now.
If it wasn't for hustlers, gangsters & gamblers there'd be no Jazz. Wasn't middle~class who said Let's go hear Bird tonight.
Jazz was a bomb. That was also the low point of Mac sales. People had just written it off.
My father was a huge jazz fan, so I remember him playing Duke Ellington, Sarah Vaughn, and Count Basie.
When I worked with my uncle, I loved the fact that jazz music demanded that you use your own unique approach.
I loved Art Tatum! And, through him, and other different jazz musicians, I actually found my technique.
