Quotes of: Jazz-music Keyword

Jazz is a constant theme in my life. My father is a jazz pianist, and from an early age I have been surrounded by it.

Nat Wolff

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

Cassandra Wilson

A jazz musician is a juggler who uses harmonies instead of oranges.

Benny Green

I find as much inspiration from the forerunners of jazz as I do the modern-day innovators of jazz.

John Scofield

Well, being a jazz musician is not a rose garden!

Toots Thielemans

I put out a recording of me singing mostly jazz because I wanted people to know I'm coming from a jazz background.

Rickie Lee Jones

Jazz, of course, is our heritage. Jazz is a culture, it's not a fad. It's up to us to see to it that it stays alive.

Marla Gibbs

I don't know if I have enough guts to do a whole standard jazz record.

Gary Cherone

Comedians talk to other comedians the way jazz musicians can talk to each other.

David Steinberg

Musicians like to converse. There's always interesting conversation with musicians - with classical musicians, with jazz musicians, musicians in general.

Wynton Marsalis

My father was a jazz tenor sax player. He played in a lot of big bands. So I had that sound around me all the time. The first record that really caught my ear was Clifford Brown's 'Brownie Eyes.' I grew up listening to John Coltrane and Illinois Jacq...

Meshell Ndegeocello

One of my songs was on a jazz station for awhile. It was a song that I wrote for a jazz sax player friend of mine, and I sang and played the guitar on it.

Trevor Donovan

Jazz is about freedom within discipline. Usually a dictatorship like in Russia and Germany will prevent jazz from being played because it just seemed to represent freedom, democracy and the United States.

Dave Brubeck

Coltrane would do what you'd get a Roland Pro Tools module to do but with a group of jazz musicians.

Colin Greenwood

I have a fondness for jazz, particularly for jazz singers, Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald all the way through the Sinatra era.

Bob Iger

Now, the instrumentation in the jazz band and the jazz dance band has gone through many evolutions. For instance, in the 'twenties the tradition was two or three saxophones.

Gerry Mulligan

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.

Steve Lacy

Jazz is the last refuge of the untalented. Jazz musicians enjoy themselves more than anyone listening to them does.

Tony Wilson

Sometimes the things we want most in life are the things that will kill us.

Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality

Everybody wants to be somebody fancy. Even if they're shy.

Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality

A lot of jazz artists think people should like what they're doing just because it's jazz. I don't buy that.

Pat Metheny