Quotes of: Jazz-music Keyword

In England, rock music very rarely infiltrates the charts, but country music even less so.

Joe Elliott

The whole thing about rock music, pop music, is it's really for kids.

Juliana Hatfield

The folk music definition has changed in this fast music world and musical styles are blending really quickly.

Trey Anastasio

I used to watch a lot of musicals as a kid. Musical movies, not so much musical theater.

Samuel Larsen

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

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

I'm always looking for ways to develop as an artist, especially as a jazz artist-to find different ways of testing my voice.

Cassandra Wilson

I looked back on the roaring Twenties, with its jazz, 'Great Gatsby' and the pre-Code films as a party I had somehow managed to miss.

Hugh Hefner

The jazz I love is sweet and pure with raw elements, which is exactly what the good hip-hop is doing now.

Amy Winehouse

Here in England we live at a slower pace, have more time to enjoy things - like good jazz.

Chris Barber