Jazz Quotes

He would catapult you forward, and that was his intention with the Jazz Messengers. He would take young people with a potential and help them develop a voice as a player and as a writer.

In my view a jazz musician is a great musician.

But if you want to be a songwriter-based musician, whether you play punk or rock or country or jazz, whatever, you have to work on your songwriting and you have to work on being able to play in front of people, I think. That performance is how you create the groundwork for a lasting career.

Jazz is not the kind of music you are going to learn to play in three or four years or that you can just get because you have some talent for music.

Jazz was my first love.

I've always wanted to record a jazz record. I did one in the '70s with Barbara Carroll. It's been a journey.

At this point we've answered about every question you could possibly imagine about Deep Space Nine, so we do this thing called Theatrical Jazz, where we do a show of bits and pieces of things from plays and literature, poetry... stuff that we like. It's fun.

I don't know who's 18 years old today that, 20 years hence, is going to be a jazz fan.

I listen to jazz about three hours a day. I love Louis Armstrong.

Lately I've been listening to some classical music again, some jazz.

I fell in love with jazz when I was 12 years old from listening to Duke Ellington and hearing a lot of jazz in New York on the radio.

As a matter of fact, we put it down because we wanted to be jazz pickers.

I have a secret love of jazz.

I've often cringed when I heard myself described as a jazz singer. I've always thought of myself as a jazz vocalist.

It seems to me monstrous that anyone should believe that the jazz rhythm expresses America. Jazz rhythm expresses the primitive savage.

Jazz is the art of thinking out loud.

So our ears got used to listening to jazz in the place that it was that the bass player could not play. No one really realized it and really addressed it until the bass players who could play their instrument came along and started doing something with it.

I'm not a big jazz fan.

I love the sounds of Latin jazz, R&B, hip-hop, alternative, all that stuff. I'm a radio kid.

As long as there are musicians who have a passion for spontaneity, for creating something that's never been before, the art form of jazz will flourish.

I'm not a jazz singer.

In a way, the history of jazz's development is a small mirror of classical music's development through the centuries. Now jazz is a living form of original music, while classical music has gotten to the end of its cycle in terms of exploring its form.

I wanted to play some more grown-up music - jazz.

I would love to make a real jazz album someday because I never have. But that's something I'm not in a rush to do.

My brother had a big band in high school; after that we continued to play together, eventually forming a group called the Jazz Brothers, that recorded for Riverside Records.

I listen to jazz mainly. Mainstream jazz.

Once you start collecting records you learn more and more about jazz and blues.

The genius of our country is improvisation, and jazz reflects that. It's our great contribution to the arts.

I think what we need is a more welcoming mode from the people who put on a hundred million country-western shows on television. How about a monthly jazz show?

The blues is the foundation, and it's got to carry the top. The other part of the scene, the rock 'n' roll and the jazz, are the walls of the blues.