Quotes of: Jazz-band Keyword

The worst thing about the life of a jazz musician on the road is getting to the gig. Once you're there and playing, it's marvelous.

Dave Brubeck

I missed jazz, kind of. And by the time I came to it in life, it was too intimidating to enjoy thoroughly.

Warren Zevon

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

Dexter Gordon

I'd rather play jazz, I hate rock and roll.

Ginger Baker

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

Charlie Rich

Then I took 8 years of French Horn, first jazz, and then classical.

Jim Coleman

Jazz vision is a wordless conversation between musical notes and visual expressions.

Barbara Januszkiewicz

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

Greg Ginn

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

John Mayall

Jazz was more of a tool for me to use to enhance my musicality.

John Otto

There are editing procedures for talks just as there are editing procedures in jazz improvisation.

David Antin

I knew even if I'm a cowboy, I'm going to be involved in jazz in some way.

Dave Brubeck

I love that pre-mod jazz look of the late Fifties, the Steve McQueen style that influenced the British modernists.

Martin Freeman

I'm just trying to avoid any sort of generic kind of music - I don't want to do generic jazz or fusion.

Andy Summers

I think the Flecktones are a mixture of acoustic and electronic music with a lot of roots in folk and bluegrass as well as funk and jazz.

Bela Fleck

I like rock music. I like jazz better, though.

Clarke Peters

Jazz is really 20th-century fusion music. You take West African harmony and rhythm, mix with European harmony, and boom!

Christian Scott

I believe that blues and jazz are the two uniquely American contributions into music.

Edgar Winter

I listen to classical music very much. There's a lot of jazz that I don't enjoy listening to.

Lee Konitz

Gospel music rhythms are not African in origin, although I know that's what the jazz experts say.

Mahalia Jackson

So the whole basis for jazz music is based on the fact that the bass player could not play his instrument.

Miroslav Vitous