Jazz Quotes

There is a modern take on certain things you can do that, to me, is still jazz. Robert Glasper
Me You Jazz Take Still Modern Certain Certain Things Things
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. Robert Glasper
Me Age People Responsibility Jazz Side Marry Feel Over Like Most Make Because Quite Younger Flirt
It's very rare that you get very old jazz lovers and super-young hip-hop lovers at the same exact show, when you think about it. Not many artists can do that. Robert Glasper
You Old Rare Jazz Think Exact About Hip-Hop Very Get Same Artists Lovers Show Many
A lot of times, jazz musicians try to educate people. What other genre does that? Robert Glasper
Musicians People Try Jazz Other Genre Does Educate Lot Times Jazz Musicians
None of the jazz greats made music for the purpose of you going to check out music before them. Michael Jackson didn't make music so you could go check out Sam Cooke. Robert Glasper
Music You Made Before Jazz Out Purpose Could Check Make None Go Greats Michael Michael Jackson Sam Sam Cooke Jackson Going Them Cooke
Ballet Hispanico is a mixture of ethnic, ballet, social, jazz - you name it, it's doing it. The company has been going strong for more than 20 years, and you can see why: It may not be refined, but it's full of beans. Robert Gottlieb
You Strong Jazz Has-Been See More Beans Name Ballet Doing Been Years Mixture Refined Than Going May Social Ethnic Full Company Why
Without people like Dylan and the Beatles and people like Paul Simon, I think rock n' roll would have died out like Dixieland jazz. Robert Hilburn
Beatles People Jazz Think Out Would Simon Like Without Rock Rock-N-Roll Roll Died Dylan Paul Paul Simon
You listen to a Metallica song, and you listen to the drums, and they're not necessarily swinging, but the arrangements are different. Why is that? Because it's more in tune with jazz arrangements. It's very different. It's not a traditional rock and roll production, in terms of the drums. Robert Trujillo
You Song Jazz More Terms Drums Because Rock Metallica Rock And Roll Arrangements Traditional Very Roll Listen Different Tune Production Swinging Why Necessarily
There were a lot of different styles in the house - Motown, Led Zeppelin, Rolling Stones, jazz - and my dad played flamenco guitar. Soon I realized that bass was what was really grooving me. Robert Trujillo
Me Guitar Jazz Bass Soon House Styles Were Led Led Zeppelin Lot Motown Rolling Stones Rolling Stones Different Realized Really Different Styles Dad Zeppelin Played
In a lot of ways, Metallica is like a fusion band. It's not necessarily jazz or any of that, but the music is grooving. Robert Trujillo
Music Band Jazz Ways Fusion Like Metallica Lot Any Necessarily
The obsessions of others are opaque to the unobsessed, and thus easy to mock. NASCAR, jazz, baseball, roses, poetry, quilts, fishing. If we're lucky, we all have at least one. Roberta Smith
Jazz Others At Least One Easy Poetry Opaque Thus Obsessions Least NASCAR Fishing Mock Roses Lucky Baseball
Beale Street is a very famous street in the history of America. You know, American music in particular. From the blues to jazz, it's a connecting city from New Orleans that goes all the way up to Buffalo through New York. Ron Cephas Jones
Music History You Jazz Way City Through New Particular Know Buffalo New Orleans Up Very America American York Goes New York The History Of Blues Famous American Music Connecting Orleans Street
I like to shop for old jazz albums. Ron Cephas Jones
Old Jazz Like Shop Albums
I wanted to be a jazz musician. Ron Cephas Jones
Jazz Musician Wanted Jazz Musician
Jazz, and the history of jazz, is the history of America. Ron Cephas Jones
History Jazz America The History Of
I learned a lot about American history though jazz, and that's why I loved American history when I was in high school. I could hear different stories - the story that they would tell in school, and then the story that I would hear in the music. Ron Cephas Jones
Music History School Jazz Though Tell High Would High School About Could Learned Hear Lot American Different Stories Loved Story American History Then Why
This is what really makes real jazz musicians: people coming out with their own voice. Roscoe Mitchell
Musicians People Own Jazz Out Voice Makes Real Coming Really Jazz Musicians
I couldn't get my album played over the so-called smooth jazz stations. Jazz stations would not play it. You don't always know who you're making that soul connection with. Roy Ayers
You Soul Jazz Stations Would Over Know Always Making Smooth Get So-Called Who Connection Play Played Album
I am comfortable with anything I sing: jazz, gospel, classical. It doesn't matter. I can do it all. Ruben Studdard
Matter Jazz Classical Sing Comfortable Gospel Am Anything
When I'm in the classical world, I really treat it as exactly classical and I don't try and spruce it up or jazz it up or make it easier for the masses. Rufus Wainwright
World Treat Try Jazz Easier Exactly Classical Masses Make Up Really
It's like jazz: You learn the rules to break them - as long as you can break them in a meaningful way. Ryan North
You Long Jazz Way Rules Like Learn Break Them Meaningful Meaningful Way
Playing jazz in restaurants is too stereotypical. Ryuichi Sakamoto
Jazz Too Restaurants Stereotypical Playing
I still find it hard to believe that the whole era of jazz is over. Sam Shepard
Jazz Believe Find Over Still Era Hard Whole
Jazz scares me. I've witnessed so many incredible singers and jazz musicians. Pop and soul music have always been the things that I felt like I could do. Sam Smith
Music Me Musicians Soul Jazz Incredible Scares Could Like Singers Felt Soul Music Witnessed Always Been Pop Jazz Musicians Many Things
I was actually going to work at Tokyo Disney. I thought, 'I'll work in the family!' That was my postgraduate plan. I didn't really have any plans lined up, but I was going to audition for this big band jazz show that was at Tokyo Disney. I think the concert was, like, for a year or something, and I thought, 'Yeah, that's what I'll do!' Sasheer Zamata
Work Family Thought Big Year Band Jazz Think Something Like Concert Big Band Yeah Audition Lined Up Any Going Plan Really Disney Plans Show Tokyo Actually
Just like a comedian has a certain joke or a jazz musician has a riff that they know will get the crowd, a tap dancer always has a step. Savion Glover
Will Joke Jazz Dancer Musician Crowd Step Like Comedian Know Always Tap Get Just Certain Jazz Musician Riff
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