Jazz Quotes

I can show you that I have played with just about every jazz musician, every African musician, every blues musician. It's not like I'm cashing in on a false concept. This is what I do.
Carlos Santana

Show, Blues, Played

What makes my approach special is that I do different things. I do jazz, blues, country music and so forth. I do them all, like a good utility man.
Ray Charles

Music, Good, Different

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

Large, Daughter, Associate

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

Guitar, Master, Paul

I wasn't very aware of pop music because I attended an arts school. For me, it was all about jazz.
Norah Jones

Music, School, Arts

I used to be a jazz snob, believe it or not. I sort of turned my nose up at anything more commercial.
Norah Jones

Used, Nose, Commercial

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

Love, Real, Album

I could do without 'cool' publications calling me 'mom jazz.' But I laughed all the way to the bank, baby.
Norah Jones

Mom, Cool, Baby

I would say that jazz is my own language.
Amy Winehouse

The jazz I love is sweet and pure with raw elements, which is exactly what the good hip-hop is doing now.
Amy Winehouse

Love, Good, Sweet

It seems to me monstrous that anyone should believe that the jazz rhythm expresses America. Jazz rhythm expresses the primitive savage.
Isadora Duncan

America, Anyone, Seems

Gospel music rhythms are not African in origin, although I know that's what the jazz experts say.
Mahalia Jackson

Music, Gospel, African

One thing about playing the real jazz is that you can't count it.
Mahalia Jackson

Real, Playing, Count

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

Wine, Older, Everybody

Risk is at the heart of jazz. Every note we play is a risk.
Steve Lacy

Heart, Play, Risk

I like jazz, but I could never play it. You just sit there with a guitar the size of a Chevy on your chest, wearing a stupid hat, playing the same solo for an hour.
Dave Mustaine

Stupid, Play, Guitar

If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know.
Louis Armstrong

The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician.
Louis Armstrong

Important, Memory, Gone

I'm a freak, everything has to be totally flat when I play. Ed Will, my jazz teacher, set up everything completely flat, and then you'd tilt your snare drum away from you, so I do that too. So my snare tilts away from me.
Travis Barker

Teacher, Everything, Play

The only things that the United States has given to the world are skyscrapers, jazz, and cocktails. That is all. And in Cuba, in our America, they make much better cocktails.
Federico Garcia Lorca

America, United, Cuba

It's sort of what jazz would be if it stopped being snobby and what rock would be if it stopped being stupid.
Andy Partridge

Stupid, Rock, Snobby

Writing is a question of finding a certain rhythm. I compare it to the rhythms of jazz. Much of the time life is a sort of rhythmic progression of three characters. If one tells oneself that life is like that, one feels it less arbitrary.
Francoise Sagan

Life, Time, Writing

Before I became a writer, I was running a jazz bar in the center of Tokyo, which means that I worked in filthy air all the time late into the night. I was very excited when I started making a living out of my writing, and I decided, 'I will live in nothing but an absolutely healthy way.'
Haruki Murakami

Time, Live, Nothing

I hate Stanley Clark, but I have to admit he's playing Jazz whether I like it or not.
Lester Bangs

Hate, Playing, Whether

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

Music, Black, White

I wanna show that gospel, country, blues, rhythm and blues, jazz, rock 'n' roll are all just really one thing. Those are the American music and that is the American culture.
Etta James

Music, Rock, Country

Jazz is all about improvisation and it's about the moment in time, doing it this way now, and you'll never do it this way twice. I've studied the masters. Why would I want to play ball after the guys who sit on a bench? I want to play like Michael Jordan.
Brian McKnight

Time, Play, Why

Jazz music is an intensified feeling of nonchalance.
Francoise Sagan

If I'm going to be a jazz player, I need to understand Miles Davis.
Ice T

Understand, Player, Miles

I'm a great jazz fan.
Vidal Sassoon

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