Quotes of: Jazz-music Keyword

Jazz was a bomb. That was also the low point of Mac sales. People had just written it off.

Mitch Kapor

I'm the first one out on the dance floor. In college I had to take jazz, ballet and tap dancing, but, before that, it was just social.

Miles Teller

I'm concerned with trend. I don't know where jazz fans will come from 20 years from now.

Norman Granz

I wasn't a trained Mickey Mouse club performer. I played in jazz clubs and restaurants.

Norah Jones

One of the most important functions of jazz has been to encourage a hope for freedom, for people living in situations of intolerance or struggle.

Herbie Hancock

My own Brubeck Institute in California is turning out fantastic young jazz players, and I know great things will happen.

Dave Brubeck

But if you listen to great piano players, both classical and jazz, there's a huge range of dynamics and colors and emotional expression that's possible with the instrument.

Gary Burton

I took several years of dance lessons that included ballet, tap and jazz. They helped a great deal with body control, balance, a sense of rhythm, and timing.

Lynn Swann

I love jazz and pop rock and country. I grew up listening to Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston, Def Leppard, AC/DC, Anne Murray - if I hear something really great... I want to be a part of it.

Natalie MacMaster

Every good gospel singer you can hear is a scat singer; they're just using different syllables. There are a lot of jazz singers out there, and more coming out of the churches.

Al Jarreau

I listen to Neil Young and jazz and classical stations and, if my girlfriend's driving, it tends to be Hall & Oates.

Frank Black

I know of musicians who have played together for decades who hate each other. The Modern Jazz Quartet for one.

Gary Burton

I'm not going to play funk licks on a jazz album. That makes no sense.

Branford Marsalis

I'm really getting to appreciate traditional jazz now - the New Orleans stuff - a lot more than I did before.

John Goodman

I never really liked poetry readings; I liked to read poetry by myself, but I liked singing, chanting my lyrics to this jazz group.

Leonard Cohen

When I was 12, I began listening to John Coltrane and I developed a love for jazz, which I still have more and more each year.

Wynton Marsalis

That's the thing about jazz: it's free flowing, it comes from your soul.

Billy Crystal

Today jazz is still very much alive. Everywhere I go there's a new generation of musicians.

Toots Thielemans

I listen to a mixture of old jazz, contemporary, pop, some world beat stuff and various odds and ends.

Walter Becker

There's the tradition in jazz of having the Battle of the Bands, and you do not want to get your head cut when you're playing.

Wynton Marsalis

May not music be described as the mathematics of the sense, mathematics as music of the reason? The musician feels mathematics, the mathematician thinks music: music the dream, mathematics the working life.

James Joseph Sylvester