Jazz Quotes

I was a jazz major in high school, in an all-jazz band. No matter what I do, it features my musical influences.

One chord is fine. Two chords are pushing it. Three chords and you're into jazz.

The public, hearing pop music, is, without knowing it, also soaking up jazz.

I find Indian music very funky. I mean it's very soulful, with their own kind of blues. But it's the only other school on the planet that develops improvisation to the high degree that you find in jazz music. So we have a lot of common ground.

What I'm doing, I prefer to call that jazz, because it is a beautiful word - I love it.

Jazz is a very democratic musical form. It comes out of a communal experience. We take our respective instruments and collectively create a thing of beauty.

I love good rock'n'roll, blues and jazz, gospel, and a little reggae.

It's something that - jazz is one of the few things that you can go and listen to, I don't care where you're from, what you are, what background you come from - there's something there for you.

Jazz music is to be played sweet, soft, plenty rhythm.

Well, actually, I don't consider myself a jazz legend or anything.

Everybody in all countries tries to play jazz.

Amsterdam must have more than a million people. But the only area where jazz is really profitable and successful in an economic sense is in Japan. That's because they haven't been exposed enough.

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

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.

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

I always hated jazz guitar. I loved jazz saxophone but I hated jazz guitar. If I would buy an organ trio record I would make sure I'd buy one that did not have a guitar player on it. The sound was awful!

I love jazz music and sad music. I'm a sentimental guy. I'm a romantic guy.

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

Jazz, rock and roll, movies and comics are the culture of America.

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.

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

Some people try to get very philosophical and cerebral about what they're trying to say with jazz. You don't need any prologues, you just play.

It is rare that even a jazz musician finds an individual voice.

New York is the dream world, the center of jazz and rock.

The old jazz singers or old blues singers, you always just saw them kind of sitting down and singing. They weren't worried as much about their voice sounding perfect. They would make the song kind of fit their voice.

Many fail to realize this great recording industry was built by so-called jazz artists. And at the other end of the spectrum, a base in European classical music as well.

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

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

Bach was a top harmonist geezer, which is why the jazz cats love him.

Europeans really provided many venues over there and hailed the jazz artists, and a lot of musicians went over there and stayed over there for a long time. A lot of them moved over there, lived over there, and died over there.