Quotes of: Jazz Keyword

If I'm going to be a jazz player, I need to understand Miles Davis.

Ice T

Well, I guess my unease with that is... I'm always a little uneasy with that phrase - smooth jazz, as opposed to what?

David Sanborn

I think that one of the problems that jazz has is that it's so incestuous that it's starting to kill itself.

Branford Marsalis

It's true I've always been attracted to the jazz band in an orchestral way, rather than a band way.

Gerry Mulligan

Clifford Brown was in the jazz circles considered to be probably the greatest trumpet player who ever lived.

Herb Alpert

Y'know, I don't like jazz much. I'll put it on once in a while and listen, and I'll appreciate it.

Joe Perry

I never liked blues and I really didn't like jazz. I liked Chuck Berry.

Johnny Ramone

Jazz will endure just as long people hear it through their feet instead of their brains.

John Philip Sousa

By and large, jazz has always been like the kind of a man you wouldn't want your daughter to associate with.

Duke Ellington

Coltrane was moving out of jazz into something else. And certainly Miles Davis was doing the same thing.

Jan Garbarek

I believe in dressing for the occasion. There's a time for sweater, sneakers and Levis and a time for the full-dress jazz.

Ginger Rogers

Bruges is a beautiful medieval city almost untouched by time. If you like jazz, you will be well catered for. If you like chocolate and beer, you will be in heaven.

James Frain

Actors have to make you believe that it's happening for the first time and all that jazz and make it human and at the same time entertain you.

Tom Sizemore

Jasprit "Sweetu" Kapoor: Bye all! Jaswinder "Jazz" Kapoor: Bye Ball!

Kal Ho Naa Ho

Few rappers realize the genre sprang from West African griots through Delta slave songs to jazz poetry and the comedic trash talk of 'the dozens.'

Quincy Jones

I love the sounds of Latin jazz, R&B, hip-hop, alternative, all that stuff. I'm a radio kid.

Mario Vazquez

I would love to make a real jazz album someday because I never have. But that's something I'm not in a rush to do.

Norah Jones

I'd love to act. I feel that it's another naked, mysterious challenge, like jazz. It kind of intrigues me in the same way.

Paula Cole

I listen to and I play all kinds of music, and I'm interested in jazz and in bluegrass - I like it all - but Cuban music speaks to me in a certain way.

Andy Garcia

One of the things that's clear to me from interviews that I've read is that the more popular successful jazz musicians had audiences above and beyond the music community.

Branford Marsalis

That's the exact concept behind the music: to take that kind of, I guess whatever you want to call it, jazz sensibility - but not have it be about solos.

Charlie Hunter