Quotes of: Jazz Keyword

I just don't know anything about jazz, really. I've never really listened to it, but I'd definitely like to discover more about it.

Michelle Ryan

I don't want to sound as if I'm doing something tremendously special. But I am a jazz fan.

Norman Granz

You need better technique than I have to play jazz, but what you have to do is the same thing, isn't it?

Charlie Watts

That's the beauty of music. You can take a theme from a Bach sacred chorale and improvise. It doesn't make any difference where the theme comes from; the treatment of it can be jazz.

Dave Brubeck

Seriously though, my father was the first African American to sign a contract with the Metropolitan Opera so I grew up with classical music and jazz in the home all the time.

Bobby McFerrin

My dad actually taught me how to play piano. I was classically trained, but I've started to branch off a little bit into blues and jazz. That's my new thing.

Noah Gray-Cabey

Salsa, classic rock, soul music, jazz... all of that was a part of my education in making hip-hop music.

Aloe Blacc

I was really learning my craft as a jazz singer and working with some great players and all, really growing and feeling my wings.

Al Jarreau

I can turn on some jazz guitarist, and he won't do a thing for me, if he's not playing electrically. But Jeff Beck's great to listen to.

Ritchie Blackmore

Humans are imperfect. That's one of the reasons that classical and jazz are in trouble. We're on the quest for the perfect performance and every note has to be right. Man, every note is not right in life.

Branford Marsalis

I love music, and a lot of it. Jazz is probably on the top with guys like Miles Davis. But I even enjoy music from the '60s and '70s.

Donovan Bailey

As a rule, my focus is on classical music, but I love jazz. I love everything, actually.

Julie Andrews

I love most melodic music - classical, reggae, big band, jazz, blues, country, pop, swing, folk.

John Lescroart

For me, jazz will always be the soundtrack of the civil rights movement.

Henry Rollins

If he's a true symphony artist, he knows better than that because he knows that the only truly creative musician is the jazz musician.

Buddy Rich

I am not a jazz singer. I wouldn't place myself on that footing. I wouldn't even enter that arena.

Boz Scaggs

Some people think I'm a rock 'n' roll musician and some think I'm a jazz musician but, for me, there is no difference.

Georgie Fame

One thing I like about jazz is that it emphasized doing things differently from what other people were doing.

Herbie Hancock

I'd like to be a jazz singer, but I couldn't possibly do it; nobody would want me, anyway.

Deborah Moggach

Music is a huge part of my life, I enjoy every genre of music from jazz to country, and I even get down with a bit of hip hop.

Nicole Richie

I've often felt I've been born out of my time, and when I started Fairground Attraction in the 1980s, I wanted to be a 1940s jazz singer.

Eddi Reader