Top 1200 Playing Jazz Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

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Last updated on December 21, 2024.
Diplomacy is like jazz: endless variations on a theme.
Jazz is restless. It won't stay put & it never will.
I approach playing acoustic guitar more of as a percussive instrument. It's fragile. I don't have a lot of finesse when it comes to my guitar playing. — © Billie Joe Armstrong
I approach playing acoustic guitar more of as a percussive instrument. It's fragile. I don't have a lot of finesse when it comes to my guitar playing.
It's pretty rare in jazz to have a full-on steady band.
Jazz demands that you bring to it things that are valuable to you, that are personal to you.
I don't have the look of a golfer. Do I look like a rock star? I didn't make it playing guitar so I started playing golf!
Jazz is an art that takes decades to appreciate and understand.
I started out playing football in the streets, playing barefoot like all the boys there - we didn't have the money for football boots.
Louis Armstrong is jazz. He represents what the music is all about.
What I came back to is that jazz is a music to be played and not to be intellectualized on.
I can imagine an utter hatred for the jazz avant-garde.
I'd say writing songs is, for me, as much playing the tape recorder as it is playing guitar or writing words.
After I exhausted the blues thing, I got into jazz. — © Robert Quine
After I exhausted the blues thing, I got into jazz.
Jazz has endured because it doesn't have a beginning or an ending. It's a moment.
I like everything, jazz and classical, and all over the spectrum.
If you're playing around with a film, you're just playing around with it. But if it has to go into theaters, you get yourself into gear and finish it.
Jazz is not gonna be a dinosaur and stay around in one form.
There's a certain phraseology involved in jazz, and I've moved away from that.
All bad jazz sounds like Woody Woodpecker.
I dreamt of playing in front of thousands of people as a kid, but I dreamt of playing in World Cup finals as well.
I actually find a lot of parallels in jazz and cartooning.
I've met a lot of jazz musicians in my day, and they're all funny.
When you're a kid, you dream about playing cricket for a living, playing for your county and then your country.
Football is a collective sport and many times it doesn't depend on you playing well. It depends if the team is playing well.
Being from Florida and playing so many tournaments on that beach in Fort Lauderdale, I just want to be on that beach playing.
When I was playing for tips in college, I felt a fire in my soul. I had the same principle of focus that I had learned playing football.
I've got a lot of friends with whom I discuss jazz.
I don't care what I'm being called as long as I'm playing, that's all that matters. You can call me anything you want as long as I'm playing.
If you're not playing a big enough game, you'll screw up the game you're playing just to give yourself something to do.
I'm a jazz musician in that I have achieved Grade 3 on the French horn.
I notice guys playing the piano playing a part up here and a part down there, and I wandered why couldn't I do that on the guitar?
Jazz musicians, in a way, are nerds. We are so in our world.
Jazz groups have to make a living any way.
To me, jazz is the closest thing to insanity that there is in music.
What kills me is that everybody thinks I like Jazz.
By its very nature, no one person can ever be the center of jazz.
'Pinata' is a great rap record for jazz fans.
Jazz music creates so many phenomenal figures. — © Wynton Marsalis
Jazz music creates so many phenomenal figures.
Rock and roll ain't nothing but jazz with a hard backbeat.
What is my definition of jazz? "Safe sex of the highest order."
I don't think of myself as a jazz musician but a medicine man.
Well, being a jazz musician is not a rose garden!
[Jazz musicians] feel comfortable with their clichés, you know.
I started playing music when I was around 10. I always wanted to be in a band, so I started out by playing drums.
I loved playing video games when I was younger, loved playing with Legos - the tech nerd, that was me for sure.
I hate playing the bass, bro. I've been playing the bass because it's there and I don't want anyone else to play it.
I also like Western classical music and jazz.
I'd rather play jazz, I hate rock and roll. — © Ginger Baker
I'd rather play jazz, I hate rock and roll.
I love Marvin Gaye. I like jazz and all that stuff.
Once you play a tournament, you're playing against the golf course, you're playing against yourself and trying to do the best you can.
An entire composition written in jazz could not live.
Blues is to jazz what yeast is to bread--without it, it's flat.
I love, you know, a lot of jazz, John Coltrane.
I have a large collection of biographies about jazz musicians.
Jazz musicians have some outlaw in them somewhere.
If my girl ends up playing football, we probably got a lot of problems. I'll encourage her to do whatever, but playing football ain't one of them.
We're playing those mind games together Pushing the barriers, planting seeds Playing the mind guerrilla.
Possibly, I should have been a jazz singer from the beginning.
By the time I was in my teens, I was listening to Delta blues and jazz.
Neo soul, hip-hop jazz, we started that.
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