Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Frisell

To me, jazz is a place where anything is possible.

Cassandra Wilson

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

Herbie Hancock

I knew of jazz, but I didn't like it. I always thought only older people liked jazz - you know, you had to be 19 or 20.

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.

Duke Ellington

Jazz is a good barometer of freedom.

If you are a jazz lover, this is a must-see performance.

J. J. Johnson

Jazz is restless. It won't stay put & it never will.

Greg Ginn

I like a lot of electronica. I like older jazz rather than newer.

Ginger Baker

If I am playing any music at all it is jazz music.

Tom Smith

The thing with Jazz is that it's kind of like a risk takers kind of music.

Penn Jillette

It's be-bop, improvisation, ... You get to see different actors do Shakespeare, or jazz musicians do versions of the same song. Why not comedians?

It's got strong roots. I don't know if we've quite established ourselves in the Jazz mold yet, but we're hopeful.

Billy Higgins

Everything else, they can listen to over the radio and know how to do it. Jazz seems to be a little more complicated.

Herbie Mann

To most jazz critics I was basically Kenny G.

Herbie Hancock

The music becomes something that is its own entity.

Herbie Hancock

Jazz is a music that is open enough to borrow from any other form of music, and has the strength to influence any other form of music.

Herb Alpert

I like to listen to classical music... I like mainline jazz.

Gillian Flynn

I feel myself trying to be charming, and then I realize I’m obviously trying to be charming, and then I try to be even more charming to make up for the fake charm, and then I’ve basically turned into Liza Minnelli: I’m dancing in tights and sequins, begging you to love me. There’s a bowler and jazz hands and lots of teeth.

Gary Larson

I actually find a lot of parallels in jazz and cartooning.

Fats Waller

One never knows, do one?

Fats Waller

Jazz isn't what you do; it's how you do it.

Fats Waller

So easy, when you know how.

James Moody

I've done what I've done but it's not enough. I'm a student of jazz and there's just so much more to learn.

Eddie Palmieri

Same, just the same. Nine pieces ---- a trumpet, two trombones, reed, congas, drums, piano and vocalist. That's what a Latin jazz orchestra should be.

Other people have done jazz with Jewish themes, and other people have done Jewish scales and modes using materials that characterize the sound of Jewish music. I don't think many people have used the liturgy with a jazz band.

They're not carpenters. There's not a lot of need for jazz trombone players in Shreveport, La.

Horace Silver

Jazz is not background music.

Chick Corea

If I had to look at 'Now He Sings'... from outside myself, I see it as a natural part of the growth of the jazz culture, which I've always been so happy - honored, really - to be a small part of.

Ken Burns

A jazz beat is a dynamic changing rhythm.

Nikki Giovanni

I prefer her [Nina Simone] jazz period much more so than her folk period.

Miles Davis

There are no wrong notes in jazz: only notes in the wrong places.

Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

I also like Western classical music and jazz.

Erik Larson

I like all kinds of music, though I tend to prefer jazz and classics.