Quotes of: Jazz-band Keyword

I wasn't very aware of pop music because I attended an arts school. For me, it was all about jazz.

Norah Jones

I've learnt new scales through playing different types of music, like Indian raga scales, gipsy scales and harmonically-based jazz scales.

Nigel Kennedy

Certainly, jazz has become more of a niche, which is surprising, because it's our music. It's the national music of America.

Renee Fleming

I feel like certain people think that certain styles of music will taint their jazz style.

Robert Glasper

I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract Expressionism.

Don DeLillo

It's sort of what jazz would be if it stopped being snobby and what rock would be if it stopped being stupid.

Andy Partridge

Women like to watch women fight because it makes them feel sort of empowered physically and mentally. They feel kind of jazzed and excited by it.

Lucy Liu

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.

Charlie Haden

New Orleans jazz is a complex and embracing art form that began about the same time as the blues and encompassed many of its excellences.

Tim Cahill

Jazz comes from our way of life, and because it's our national art form, it helps us to understand who we are.

Wynton Marsalis

I think I represent a more left-wing view of what jazz is.

Pat Metheny

One of the things jazz has always excelled at is translating the reality of the times through its musical prism.

Pat Metheny

I'm reserved, so I've always needed to find a way of opening up. Jazz helped me do that.

Renee Fleming

If there was no black man there would be no Rock'n'Roll. The beat, the rhythms of Africa are what created Rock'n'Roll and Jazz.

Ray Manzarek

Rock and roll mainly but I can play passable jazz also.

Suzi Quatro

I think Wes Montgomery is the greatest jazz guitarist that ever lived.

Kevin Eubanks

The thing to judge in any jazz artist is, does the man project and does he have ideas.

Miles Davis

Diana Krall knocks me out. I like jazz and I like her simple approach.

Merle Haggard

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

Norman Granz

When I was doing jazz concerts in America, I would use the biggest names I could find.

Norman Granz

I used to be a jazz snob, believe it or not. I sort of turned my nose up at anything more commercial.

Norah Jones