Jazz Quotes - page 4

All the classic jazz players all sang and a lot of 'em sang blues. (Mose Allison)
I just try to do as good job with the material as I can and play some jazz as well, some improvised music, and do that every night. Just see where it goes. View quote
Mose Allison
My main influences have always been the classic jazz players who sang, like Louis Armstrong and Nat King Cole and Jack Teagarden. View quote
Mose Allison
The jazz boom was goin' on then so there was a lot happenin' in New York at that time. View quote
Mose Allison
As far as I'm concerned, the essentials of jazz are: melodic improvisation, melodic invention, swing, and instrumental personality. View quote
Mose Allison
And I played in jazz band as well during all three years in school. View quote
Travis Barker
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. View quote
Travis Barker
I'd actually been making my living as an organist with bands since I was probably 15 or 16 years old, and then as a senior in high school I put together a jazz quintet called The Bobby Mack Jazz Quintet. View quote
Bobby McFerrin
I like a very dark house, just black. I sit there and just think. Once I'm still and quiet inside, I'll begin. It's very personal; it has to be. One song may be Bach, the next blues, a song from TV, or a nursery rhyme or jazz piece. View quote
Bobby McFerrin
Well I went to New Orleans to cover the jazz festival for Trio, it's this new arts channel, it's really great. View quote
Amy Sedaris
the beauty of America, neither cool jazz nor devoured Egyptian heroes, lies in lives in the darkness I inhabit in the midst of sterile millions. (Frank O'Hara)
Lately I've been listening to some classical music again, some jazz. View quote
Alan Vega
But if you want to be a songwriter-based musician, whether you play punk or rock or country or jazz, whatever, you have to work on your songwriting and you have to work on being able to play in front of people, I think. That performance is how you create the groundwork for a lasting career. View quote
Amy Ray
I was totally into jazz in my teens. View quote
Andy Summers
I'm just trying to avoid any sort of generic kind of music - I don't want to do generic jazz or fusion. View quote
Andy Summers
I love many kinds of music: world music, jazz, classical, pop. View quote
Anita Diament
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. View quote
Ahmad Jamal
Miles Davis fully embraced possibilities and delved into it. He was criticized heavily from the jazz side. He was supposed to be part of a tradition, but he didn't consider himself part of a tradition. View quote
Bill Laswell
I played Big Band jazz music. I wasn't into rock and roll. I was just there because it was a living. I surprised everyone. I'm still surprising people. View quote
Bobby Vinton
I'm not a jazz singer. View quote
Boz Scaggs
I am not a jazz singer. I wouldn't place myself on that footing. I wouldn't even enter that arena. (Boz Scaggs)
I listened to classical guitar and Spanish guitar, as well as jazz guitar players, rock and roll and blues. All of it. I did the same thing with my voice. View quote
Boz Scaggs
Jazz vision is the fusion of music and art a real paradox of same-yet different. Here we play in exchanges, like the hardness of the key of c# major and from the softness of Db major - capturing, reflecting and improvising. View quote
Barbara Januszkiewicz
Jazz vision for me is seeing my art in musical term. It offers me an visual expressions in an ever-changing musical palette. View quote
Barbara Januszkiewicz
What is jazz? It, It's almost like asking, What is French? Jazz is a musical language. It's a musical dialect that actually embodies the spirit of America. View quote
Branford Marsalis