Jazz Music Quotes

It is jazz music that called me to be a musician and I have always sang the songs that moved me the most.

If Music is a Place -- then Jazz is the City, Folk is the Wilderness, Rock is the Road, Classical is a Temple.

If you believe, you will. If you don't, you won't.

Jazz is one of the least learnable art forms.

I strive for honesty in playing what I feel.

What about a blues in W, in the key of W.

You don't know what you like, you like what you know. In order to know what you like, you have to know everything.

The only art form that Americans have created that's recognized around the world is jazz music born in a community that had the peculiar experience of being unfree in a free land.

I was unfashionable before anyone knew who I was.

Jazz isn't dead. It just smells funny.

Jazz will endure just as long people hear it through their feet instead of their brains.

Jazz music hashaunted America for seventy years.It has tempted us out of our lily-white reserve with its black promise of untrammeled joy.

Jazz is something that you have to feel. It's something that you have to live.

Music should never be harmless.

Jazz is the music of the body.

Growing up, I was very much interested in jazz music.

Bebop was like humming along to Mitch Miller to me.

Let the music speak for itself.

At the edge of madness you howl diamonds and pearls.

Amy [Winehouse] changed pop music forever, I remember knowing there was hope, and feeling not alone because of her. She lived jazz, she lived the blues.

Jazz in itself is not struggling. That is, the music itself is not struggling... It's the attitude that's in trouble. My plays insist that we should not forget or toss away our history.

I love jazz music and sad music.

Jazz music will continue to thrive, possibly in unexpected ways.

I played Big Band jazz music. I wasn't into rock and roll. I was just there because it was a living. I surprised everyone. I'm still surprising people.

As far as music school goes, I walked through Berkelee one time.

I was very adamant about not being called a jazz singer, but now I've embraced it. The way I approach music is through jazz, so I'm a jazz singer.

Kenny Burrell is the grand master of jazz guitar.

The music becomes something that is its own entity.

I think I was supposed to play jazz.

If you keep your head in the sand, you don't know where the kick's coming from.

Rather than say I play Jazz, I simply say I play music.

I'd like to feel that whatever I play is a result of whatever I've heard.

So the whole basis for jazz music is based on the fact that the bass player could not play his instrument.

I find my inspiration in myself.

Jazz is such a powerful cultural statement that it's almost as if it's intertwined with society.

I still insist that American performers are the best performers in the world.

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

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

Steve Marcus was one of the greatest saxophonists in all of music. He truly was able to unite jazz with the popular music of the time.

We're here to have a ball.

I'm always looking for ways to develop as a Jazz artist, to find different ways of using my voice.

You must surrender whatever preconceptions you have about music if you're really interested in it.

All music now, I think, is fair game for jazz musicians to interpret, and they have been. I would consider those songs standards now. "Norwegian Wood" is a standard; "Call Me" is a standard.

I resolved to play my trumpet like a sax.

What kills me is that everybody thinks I like Jazz.

The true artform is being a human being.

I started playing jazz by slowing down Tal Farlow records and analyzing his runs

Salsa, classic rock, soul music, jazz... all of that was a part of my education in making hip-hop music.

Jazz music by its very nature is just a conglomerate of a lot of different kinds of music.

Jazz music just resonates with the frequency of me.