Quotes About Jazz

I like rock music. I like jazz better, though.

I'd like to do something involving jazz. But books are how I earn my living, and I'd like to stay with the horse I rode in on.

If you really dissect hip-hop you will find a whole lot of Charles Mingus, Ron Carter, Ahmad Jamal, a lot of classic jazz samples in there.

What I believe to be jazz is constructed and improvised music which is in the air right now. But I don't think that's most people's definition of jazz, you know? We don't know what we're talking about, because we don't know the definition.

The world I live in is benefiting from things like satellite radio. Jazz and blues fests are everywhere now, and Americana is going strong on college radio. What I'm hearing is an appreciation of real music.

I started off with classical music, and I got into jazz when I was about 14 years old. And I've been playing jazz ever since.

I do love singing. I wouldn't say I'm any good, but I definitely love it - especially jazz singing.

I listen to old jazz and classical music, and that's it.

Elvis might have compromised his musical style a bit towards the end, but that doesn't mean that artists from the rock n' roll/folk-roots culture - of which he was not really a part - shouldn't get better as they get older, like the great jazz or blues artists.

I like the idea of an eclectic approach, incorporating jazz with other forms and other genres of music.

Jazz is very important. It's not something I can put my finger on. When I'm writing at my favorite time, I like to have the gentle side of Coltrane or Brubeck on the CD player. It creates sort of a spiritual space in which I write best.

What we know about the destination resort business is clearly established. But it's all about one thing, and one thing only. All of the razzmatazz and jazz we hear about facilities and everything else doesn't amount to a hill of beans. It's customer experience that determines the longevity and endurance of these enterprises.

I did an instrumental jazz album. That was my first album.

My years of ballet and jazz dance lessons didn't make me any more graceful - they just helped keep me from bumping into the furniture on stage.

A lot of jazz artists think people should like what they're doing just because it's jazz. I don't buy that.

I use a lot of tunings because I listen to a lot of jazz.

I got my first set of drums when I was around 3. I went from band to marching band to Latin jazz band - it's like riding a bike.

I find early jazz to be the most revolutionary music of its time.

I wasn't a dancer learning to play Baby Houseman. I was Baby Houseman learning to play a dancer. I was someone who'd never done any Latin dance. I'd taken jazz classes and ballet growing up in New York, so I had dance in me, and I knew I loved it, but I'd never done a dance audition.

I played in school jazz bands and tried to start rock bands, but nobody was interested.

Jazz was a bomb. That was also the low point of Mac sales. People had just written it off.

The enthusiasm, the adulation for us as jazz artists, in Kiev and Odessa was really heartwarming.

I think jazz has given me freedom with my voice.

By the time I approached my forties, I had the self-assurance to approach all the genres I love so deeply: R & B, rock, jazz, and pop.