Jazz Quotes

What makes my approach special is that I do different things. I do jazz, blues, country music and so forth. I do them all, like a good utility man.

Jazz fans love Miles and I love him for a myriad of reasons, but the overviews are always too simplistic.

When I and the other young artists were working in comics, our work carried with it a particularly American slant. After all, we were Americans drawing and writing about things that touched us. As it turned out, the early work was, you might say, a comic book version of Jazz.

Life is a lot like jazz... it's best when you improvise.

I was a beginner again. I practiced hard and used to listen very closely to recordings of American jazz drummers such as Tony Williams and Kenny Clarke.

My first guitar, a Fender Jazz Master, I traded it in for a Les Paul Deluxe.

I have seen great jazz musicians die obscure and drinking themselves to death and not really being able to get any work and working in small, funky jazz clubs.

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

Jazz is a very accurate, curiously accurate accompaniment to 20th century America.

Lately, I've been listening to some jazz albums. I love the new Pat Metheny album. John Coltrane. I still like good metal, though!

I'm a freak, everything has to be totally flat when I play. Ed Will, my jazz teacher, set up everything completely flat, and then you'd tilt your snare drum away from you, so I do that too. So my snare tilts away from me.

If one takes all the styles in jazz harmonically from the earliest beginnings to the latest experiments, he still has a rather limited scope when compared to the rest of music in the world.

Jazz is not the format where I want to stay, but it really is a starting point for me.

I was a jazz major in high school, in an all-jazz band. No matter what I do, it features my musical influences.

One chord is fine. Two chords are pushing it. Three chords and you're into jazz.

The public, hearing pop music, is, without knowing it, also soaking up jazz.

I find Indian music very funky. I mean it's very soulful, with their own kind of blues. But it's the only other school on the planet that develops improvisation to the high degree that you find in jazz music. So we have a lot of common ground.

What I'm doing, I prefer to call that jazz, because it is a beautiful word - I love it.

Jazz is a very democratic musical form. It comes out of a communal experience. We take our respective instruments and collectively create a thing of beauty.

I love good rock'n'roll, blues and jazz, gospel, and a little reggae.

It's something that - jazz is one of the few things that you can go and listen to, I don't care where you're from, what you are, what background you come from - there's something there for you.

Jazz music is to be played sweet, soft, plenty rhythm.

I like jazz, but I could never play it. You just sit there with a guitar the size of a Chevy on your chest, wearing a stupid hat, playing the same solo for an hour.

Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music.

In the last few years I've been listening to jazz more than anything else. I listen to a lot of world music and experimental here and there.

I played saxophone, so I was into jazz. I learned from each audience and each teacher that I had. I can't really tell you any rules or anything, but the way I develop my beliefs is really just by personally learning from different situations.

The point of jazz is, you do something and then you go on.

After the war, once the bop revolution had taken hold, there were all kinds of young musicians, talented young musicians, who were ready for this fusion of classical and jazz.

It seems that jazz is more cerebral and more mathematical in a sense.

I also like Western classical music and jazz.