Famous Quotes & Sayings

DJ Jazzy Jeff

And more than anything, I like the improvisation of jazz. That's the same thing with DJ-ing. There's so much improvisation you can do with cuttin' and scratchin' that's reminiscent of jazz music, because it's all about how you feel. You're capturing a vibe and just going with it.

Dexter Gordon

Jazz to me is a living music.

David Sanborn

You never get it figured out. You just keep playing.

Jane Asher

I do find modern jazz quite tricky.

Jan Garbarek

There's a certain phraseology involved in jazz, and I've moved away from that.

Chris Carter

I love jazz and funk, because it's hard. If it's not hard, it's not worth doing.

Cassandra Wilson

Miles Davis was doing something inherently African, something that has to do with all forms of American music, not just jazz.

Charlie Parker

You've got to learn your instrument.

Charles Mingus

Jazz is the language of the emotions.

Carlos Fuentes

There is no creation without tradition. No one creates from nothing.

Edmund Burke

Custom reconciles us to everything.

Camille Paglia

The piddling ignoramuses who deny that there is a distinct, discernible, objective western tradition are just woozy literati.

Charles Rosen

The death of classical music is perhaps its oldest continuing tradition.

Edith Wharton

traditions that have lost their meaning are the hardest of all to destroy.

Boozoo Chavis

I keep up the tradition, the zydeco.

Auguste Comte

The dead govern the living.

Bjork

I always wanted to be a farmer. There is a tradition of that in my family.

Brian King

We try to keep the regulations down. That's an A.T. tradition as much as anything else.

Carl Crawford

I'm going to try to not put a lot of pressure on myself.

Lee Daniels

When you're traveling, you can take it with you. You can use it for walking and I've done that many times actually trying to find restaurants.

Aaron Sorkin

Trying to guess what the (mass) audience wants and then trying to satisfy that is usually a bad recipe for getting something good.

Andre Walker

We were trying to play an up-tempo game, but then we started to play their style. That is how they usually play and they were more comfortable than we were.

Brian Schmidt

We were trying to get the word out, but they were stranded.

Alan Titchmarsh

Once I was on a plane and a woman said to me, 'Now, what's the matter with my tomatoes?' And I said, 'Well, it's a bit difficult to see from here.' She took offence and said, 'I was only trying to be friendly.'

Charlotte Bronte

Jane! will you hear reason?' (he stooped and approached his lips to my ear) 'because, if you won't, I'll try violence.

Charlotte Bronte

Better to try all things and find all empty, than to try nothing and leave your life a blank.

Charlie Haden

The whole underlying theme for the new music... is to communicate honest, human values, and in doing that to try to improve the quality of life.