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.

Agnes Obel

Even though music is something I travel around doing, it is also a very private thing. A sort of escapism.

David Gray

That's what music is for me. It's a place to go to.

Bruce Springsteen

Some of the greatest blues music is some of the darkest music you've ever heard.

Bob Weir

What I like best about music is when time goes away.

Ayumi Hamasaki

Music is my life, if I am without music or if I can't sing any more, I die, I'm nothing... because music is everything.

Arthur Honegger

Music is geometry in time.

Charles Spurgeon

Music is at its best when it is pleasingly melancholic.

Boethius

Music is so naturally united with us that we cannot be free from it - even if we so desired.

Arthur Phillips

But music is, at the very minimum, inflammatory, exclusionary, divisive, encouraging of snobbery and solipsism.

Georges Braque

To work from nature is to improvise.

Nora Dunn

I love improvisation.

Igor Stravinsky

Composition is selective improvisation.

Leo Ornstein

Improvisation is terribly haphazard.

Tommy Chong

I've always been into improvisation.