Quotes of: Jazz Keyword

I always say that the problem with jazz accessibility is not the content of the music, it's people's ability to access it.

Esperanza Spalding

If you play the very subtle jazz tunes with acoustic pianos, acoustic bass and it's a dead standard, you are going to play very differently. It depends on the music.

Lee Ritenour

We are serious about our music here in Philadelphia, and jazz has meant a lot to this city.

Michael Nutter

There are singers that I have enjoyed, from Nina Simone and Ray Charles onward. But the music that made music the number one thing for me as a youth was jazz.

Robert Wyatt

In the last few years I've been listening to jazz more than anything else. I listen to a lot of world music and experimental here and there.

Serj Tankian

Jazz is not the kind of music you are going to learn to play in three or four years or that you can just get because you have some talent for music.

Wynton Marsalis

In the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra we play such a diversity of music, with 10 arrangers in the band, we don't really worry about whether it's contemporary or not.

Wynton Marsalis

I look back at my filmography, and I'm pretty jazzed with the stuff I've been part of. They're all movies I'd like to see.

Jeff Bridges

You know what I'd really like to do? I'd like to record some white Chicago jazz.

Ahmet Ertegun

If Music is a Place -- then Jazz is the City, Folk is the Wilderness, Rock is the Road, Classical is a Temple.

Vera Nazarian

Though the Jazz Age continued it became less and less an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children's party taken over by the elders.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Jazz vision for me is seeing my art in musical term. It offers me an visual expressions in an ever-changing musical palette.

Barbara Januszkiewicz

If you consider film an art form, as some people do, then the Western would be a truly American art form, much as jazz is.

Clint Eastwood

I don't think theater is dying, and musicals are a great American art form. We've got apple pie, jazz and musical theater.

Laura Benanti

I don't worry too much about the fundamentalist principles that are in almost any discussion about jazz.

Pat Metheny

I'm not really married to the craft of jazz - I'm married to me, and my style, and whatever I produce.

Robert Glasper

I think everybody has to kind of decide what the word 'jazz' means to them, and that's fine.

Kenny G

As far as I'm concerned, the essentials of jazz are: melodic improvisation, melodic invention, swing, and instrumental personality.

Mose Allison

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