Quotes by Jazz Life on the road is murder. It's as though life begins and ends when you have your horn in your mouth. Gerry Mulligan jazz music mouths If I am playing any music at all it is jazz music. Ginger Baker jazz-music jazz ifs I like to mix and match things so I'm infusing a little bit of jazz, a little bit of classical, a little bit of soul, into the whole blues idiom and I'm coming up with something that I'm really interested in. Gino Vannelli jazz soul littles Jazz musicians like John Coltrane needed these very clear titles for their abstract music, and your decision to bring voices into your music as a way to tap into content. It's related to the way my text-based work still functions as abstraction for me. If I repeat a sentence down a canvas, the text starts to smudge and disappear. It essentially becomes an abstract piece. The meaning of the text is still there. Glenn Ligon jazz musician decision I like a lot of electronica. I like older jazz rather than newer. Greg Ginn jazz There are three virtuous styles of music; classical, jazz and heavy metal. I do love classical music but I don't listen to it much anymore and I never listen to metal, so I am not very interested in music that is difficult to play. Gregor Schwellenbach heavy-metal jazz style If you mess around with jazz, you better have a good drummer and a good bass player. Gunther Schuller bass jazz player I grew up in the funk, rock and roll, blues and r&b tradition, and I came to this thing we call jazz later. And I came to improvise music from the standpoint of jazz; I was improvising, but within these other genres of music. Hamid Drake rock-and-roll rocks jazz We always talk about how everyone is unifocal. You can't possibly be interested in jazz and Beethoven. Of course you can. You can't both be reading a newspaper and be online. Of course you can. We shouldn't be obsessed with a gun to your head, 'You either read a newspaper or die!' Harold Evans jazz gun reading It is jazz music that called me to be a musician and I have always sang the songs that moved me the most. Harry Connick, Jr. jazz musician song Since about 1980 Kenny Werner has been one of jazz’s unsung heroes Harvey Pekar kenny jazz hero He would forget everybody's name, so everybody was called 'Pops'. Helen Forrest jazz names forget Jazz is rhythm and meaning. Henri Matisse jazz music inspirational There are wonderful things in Jazz, the improvisation, the liveliness, the being at one with the audience. Henri Matisse jazz music wonderful If you go back to the roots of jazz, it was all about COLLECTIVE improvisation. Henry Threadgill improvisation jazz roots Clifford Brown was in the jazz circles considered to be probably the greatest trumpet player who ever lived. Herb Alpert jazz circles player Instrumental music can spread the international language. Herb Alpert jazz music language I like to listen to classical music... I like mainline jazz. Herb Alpert classical-music jazz Jazz: Music invented for the torture of imbeciles. Henry Van Dyke imbeciles jazz sarcastic The spirit of jazz is the spirit of openness. Herbie Hancock jazz music spirit «910111213141516171819»
