Quotes About Jazz

What about a blues in W, in the key of W.

I've always loved black culture; I don't know any other way to put it. Since I was a kid I loved music and early jazz, Sly and the Family Stone.

I don't worry too much about the fundamentalist principles that are in almost any discussion about Jazz.

The iconoclastic mode, that specific mode of language, there is an element of it that it is punk - that is confrontational. That's just a part of the language of jazz - at a certain point.

Jazz: Music invented for the torture of imbeciles.

Jazz is a beautiful woman whose older brother is a policeman.

Jazz music hashaunted America for seventy years.It has tempted us out of our lily-white reserve with its black promise of untrammeled joy.

Jazz will endure just as long people hear it through their feet instead of their brains.

I started in New Orleans music and played all through the history of jazz.

Jazz in itself is not struggling. That is, the music itself is not struggling... It's the attitude that's in trouble. My plays insist that we should not forget or toss away our history.

If jazz education in our colleges were free to all it would provide thousands of good jobs in the music industry which has been taken over by corrupt millionaires and billionaires.

I feel like certain people think that certain styles of music will taint their jazz style.

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.

As long as there are people trying to play music in a sincere way, there will be Jazz.

I always wanted to be a spontaneous composer.

Whenever there's a change with Jazz & its aesthetics, it's almost always reflected with a change in the culture.

There are singers that I have enjoyed, from Nina Simone and Ray Charles onward. But the music that made music the number one thing for me as a youth was jazz.

People are always defining and re-defining music. My style of playing has been characterized as smooth jazz and acid jazz. I listen as I play; I'm not caught up in defining the type of music I play.

The blues and jazz will live forever... So will the Delta and the Big Easy.

When Jazz broke through in England, I remember sneaking to listen on the radio much to my parent's disapproval.

I was very adamant about not being called a jazz singer, but now I've embraced it. The way I approach music is through jazz, so I'm a jazz singer.

I like musicians who look at the public. You have to bring the music to the largest number. Otherwise, we'll [the Jazz players] stay in the clubs. Jazz must be accessible to everyone.

Kenny Burrell is the grand master of jazz guitar.

I didn't plan on rock-n-roll. I wanted to learn jazz; I got to know some people doing rock-n-roll with jazz, and I thought I could make some money playing music.