Quotes of: Jazz Keyword

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

Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music.

Nina Simone

Jazz is the only music in which the same note can be played night after night but differently each time.

Ornette Coleman

Jazz has been such a force in music, that any musician, including classical composers, have been influenced, and obviously performers, also.

Yo-Yo Ma

I understood jazz, I understood how it worked. That's what I apply to everything.

Van Morrison

My work has been marginalized as far as the jazz-business complex is concerned, or the contemporary-music complex.

Anthony Braxton

I was blessed to work with The Jazz Messengers when the two piano players were Keith Jarrett and Chick Corea.

Chuck Mangione

Most jazz players work out their solos, at least to the extent that they have a very specific vocabulary.

Lee Konitz

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Fitzgerald coined the phrase the 'Jazz Age,' and now we're living in the Hip-Hop Age.

Baz Luhrmann

Some people are born with a brain that has this weird, magical mathematical thing that makes them an amazing jazz musician.

Andy Richter

I don't think that jazz, as any kind of an art form, has any permanence attached to it, apart from the practitioners of it.

Norman Granz

Jazz is not something that can be defined through blunt instruments. It is much more poetic than that.

Pat Metheny

I'm not a folk or jazz singer, more a hard-edged pop singer - with some rock, and song hooks.

Phoebe Snow

Jazz is like wine. When it is new, it is only for the experts, but when it gets older, everybody wants it.

Steve Lacy

What is my definition of jazz? 'Safe sex of the highest order.

Kurt Vonnegut

My first guitar, a Fender Jazz Master, I traded it in for a Les Paul Deluxe.

Lenny Kravitz