Quotes About Jazz

Jazz sometimes can be really complicated and inaccessible to people because they don't know what to start with. You can start with something that you love, but if you start with something that you hate, then it's like, 'You know what, I hate jazz.' It took me a lot of time to catch on to jazz, too.

The way that I got involved with microtonal music was, frankly, through jazz.

A jazz beat is a dynamic changing rhythm.

I have been influenced by music. I grew up listening to blues, jazz and all.

Most of the people that I learned and experienced jazz with have been with foreign white people, mostly from France. Excluding my family.

I listen to classical music very much. There's a lot of jazz that I don't enjoy listening to.

I was a jazz drummer, and it was my life for a while: what I lived and breathed every day.

My dad is a big jazz fan, and that was the reason I first got into jazz.

I like to listen to classical music... I like mainline jazz.

I don't want to appear hostile, like I'm hostile to L.A. or that I feel that the people don't appreciate jazz. I don't think it's that. I think it's something more. It's something a little bit more complicated than that.

The cool thing is that jazz is really a wonderful example of the great characteristics of Buddhism and great characteristics of the human spirit. Because in jazz we share, we listen to each other, we respect each other, we are creating in the moment. At our best, we're non-judgmental.

I think that people should learn about that. In most music, there's one way that you do something, and that's the only way. In jazz, it's a lot different.

The day of the great jazz improviser who doesn't know how to read music is over.

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

I like a lot of electronica. I like older jazz rather than newer.

It's true I've always been attracted to the jazz band in an orchestral way, rather than a band way.

I wanted to play some more grown-up music - jazz.

What I see for the band by the end of this year is the Complex live at the Montreux Jazz Festival. I want my guys to be comfortable. I'm certainly not in this for the money, but I'd really like to see my guys make some money off of this stuff.

All the classic jazz players all sang and a lot of 'em sang blues.

I listen to jazz mainly. Mainstream jazz.

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.

I am famous because I am an African American jazz artist.

There's a richness to the old works if you look before the 1950s. The chord progressions and the language was more complicated, especially in the jazz and classical world.

I do feel a responsibility because most people like me that are my age or younger, they don't quite make it over to the jazz side. They flirt with it, but they don't quite marry it.