Top 1200 Playing Jazz Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

And I used to listen to a lot of jazz.

Going back to your country and playing for a big team and being able to enjoy playing La Liga would be a good thing for my career.

Jazz stands for freedom.

It was really amazing. I mean, he'd never mentioned that he played in the symphony, like serious violin playing, not fiddle playing. And he just blew us away.

I've mostly been focusing on writing, and I've really enjoyed not playing music. It will always be part of my life, but I don't feel the immediate need to be playing for people.

I love classical jazz.

The music that I'm known for is quiet and gentle, although when I was growing up and as a teenager, I was playing the opposite - I was screaming and playing bass and those loud electric guitars.

I have a bachelor's and a master's in jazz.

I haven't a great jazz band, and I don't want one.

The jazz musician's function is to feel.

Jazz is people's music, a collectivity.

I'm a great jazz fan.

Jazz music is the power of now.

I'm not interested in a rock/jazz fusion.

Jazz is a state of mind. There's no boundaries.

I'm playing 10 feet from Mike Campbell every night. I look across the stage, there's Howie. Tom's in the middle and we're playing all this stuff I love. It's great.

Jazz is a good barometer of freedom.

I'm a jazz performer - I have to improvise with what I'm given.

Jazz is a beautiful word. I love it.

I wanted to be a jazz musician.

Social networking sites are an easy way to insult people. People have sent me messages saying that they are praying for me to get injured. Such messages are not nice, because I love playing football: I love playing for my club; I love playing football for Ghana.

If it hadn't been for Jazz, there wouldn't be no rock and roll.

Jazz is the music of unemployment.

Jazz is not background music.

I think if it wasn't for the blues, there wouldn't be no jazz.

I'm not a big jazz fan.

I wasn't playing the music, the music was playing me... and once that went away, and I had the feeling I was playing music, I had to stop. The need to go onstage and get my brain flattened every night left me, and what I didn't wanna do is go onstage and perpetrate a fraud... You cannot fool an audience.

The truth is, the family is much more creatively nourishing because you're playing on a full keyboard. Whereas when you're single, you're just playing the upbeat jazzy tunes.

I love my jazz hands!

You can't just say jazz is dead.

There is nothing better than playing a bad girl for two months, then turning around and playing someone sweet. Films give you this opportunity.

I'm always playing Madden, Halo, and College Football. If I'm at home, chances are I'm playing one of those three. I've had every videogame console since Nintendo.

The first time I listened to jazz was when I was 8.

That's really the thing that got me into playing a lot - getting excited about playing along with my favorite bands like Zeppelin and Black Sabbath.

I mean, before this, I would have said playing Bill Gates, because I'm playing someone obviously who is alive and is the richest man in the world. That was a heavy responsibility.

Jazz is the continual pulsation of the now.

Blues and jazz are such a root to music.

Science Fiction is the jazz of literature.

Jazz to me is a living music.

Jazz music is a language of the emotions.

I am a complete jazz nerd.

Every ‘mistake’ is an opportunity in jazz.

There's a jazz influence in my music in general.

I followed the Jazz as a kid.

Jazz is rhythm and meaning.

Jazz is what I play for a living.

I started playing baseball and soccer. Those were my sports on the streets and in school when I was growing up. I didn't even start playing basketball until I was 14.

Bop is no love-child of jazz.

Jazz can be so serious, no sense of humor.

I want to stay with the Jazz.

There are no great jazz-fusion bands.

I think I was supposed to play jazz.

I started playing piano; I picked up a ukulele, and I loved it and kept playing that. I play a bit of guitar, and some African drums from back in the day.

When I started playing, there were no teams and no structure, so I had to play with the boys. I get very emotional when I think about the humiliation that I've suffered playing football.

I like jazz in all the ways that it is played.

Jazz was uplifted by what I did.

I was totally into jazz in my teens.

Painting, I think it's like jazz.

I loved playing 'Ultima.' Getting my computer in college and playing 'Wing Commander.' I hear a lot from our fans, and they are the same way. Games are where I want to be.

I was trained in jazz, which I love.