Jazz Quotes

“Today jazz is still very much alive. Everywhere I go there's a new generation of musicians.”

“The piano ain't got no wrong notes.”

“My favorite music is jazz, actually. It's what I listen to, it's what I was raised on, and it's what I prefer to sing.”

“It might seem a contradiction but... the ability to improvise requires lots of practice. Ask any jazz musician.”

“Dinner 'conversation' at the Cohens' meant my sister, mom, and I relaying in brutal detail the day's events in a state of amplified hysteria, while my father listened to his own smooth jazz station in his head.”

“For me, jazz is an understanding of music, rather than an end in itself.”

“One of my songs was on a jazz station for awhile. It was a song that I wrote for a jazz sax player friend of mine, and I sang and played the guitar on it.”

“Great music - say jazz - has that inventive, improvisational quality that tells us something about life.”

“If you ask me, rockabilly has had a raw deal for far too long. People never shunned the blues or jazz the way they do rockabilly. But it's the original punk-rock, and it changed the way people looked at music for ever.”

“'Star Trek' scared me a lot more than 'White Jazz.' It terrified me, really. Because of the scale, the responsibility, the fact that it was this iconic character. It was the bigger challenge, so I had to take it.”

“Jazz is an interesting music. It's one of the few forms of music where everyone that's performing the music has a creative stake in the music. In jazz, everyone's improvising, and everyone's creating at the same time.”

“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.”

“I was totally into jazz in my teens.”

“When I was 12, I was doing competitive jazz, tap and ballet in Michigan. The studio put the best dancers together, and I joined that. We always did really, really well in local competitions.”

“In September 2012, I got the blues pretty bad, so I stopped playing for a little while. I started to renew my playing by the time February of 2013 came around. I would go up and rehearse to different songs, play stuff like Count Basie records, jazz or rap.”

“I played saxophone, so I was into jazz. I learned from each audience and each teacher that I had. I can't really tell you any rules or anything, but the way I develop my beliefs is really just by personally learning from different situations.”

“I played the drums. I basically started off in drum line. So it was just straight percussion. Then I got into the drum set. I was in the jazz band and then all through high school I was in orchestra.”

“I do find modern jazz quite tricky.”

“I went to jazz school. Not to say I'm a great jazz musician, but I studied under some great teachers. It was an important part of my life.”

“Jazz is a racist musical form invented by whites to enslave blacks.”