Jazz Quotes

I've got wide tastes, but I don't like jazz. Terry Pratchett
Jazz Like Got Tastes Wide
I believe deeply that jazz is still a very vital music that has much to say, not just to eggheads, or whatever the musical equivalent of an egghead is, but to ordinary people. Terry Teachout
Music People Whatever Jazz Believe Musical Say Vital Still Equivalent Very Just Ordinary Ordinary People Much Deeply
I became a professional musician and played all kinds of music. I played bluegrass, I played classical music, and for many years, I played jazz. Terry Teachout
Music Jazz Musician Kinds Classical Classical Music Became Years Bluegrass Many Professional Played
All of the most popular music of the '30s and '40s were deeply informed by jazz. Terry Teachout
Music Jazz Most Were Informed Popular Popular Music Deeply
As late as the early '50s, jazz was still, for the most part, a genuinely popular music, a utilitarian, song-based idiom to which ordinary people could dance if they felt like it. Terry Teachout
Music People Dance Jazz Late Could Part Like Most Idiom Felt Genuinely Still Ordinary Which Ordinary People Popular Popular Music Utilitarian Early
Even if I could, I wouldn't want to undo the transformation of jazz into a sophisticated art music. Terry Teachout
Music Art Transformation Jazz Could Sophisticated Undo Want If I Could Even
No, I don't know how to get young people to start listening to jazz again. But I do know this: Any symphony orchestra that thinks it can appeal to under-30 listeners by suggesting that they 'should' like Schubert and Stravinsky has already lost the battle. Terry Teachout
Battle People Listening Lost Young Jazz Symphony Symphony Orchestra Like Know Schubert How Get Any Listeners Orchestra Again Young People Should Appeal Stravinsky Start Suggesting Thinks
The church we grew up playing at was not one of those churches known for its music, but it was just this all-around energy that would be happening because, at the same time we'd be playing in church, we'd be playing in the city jazz band under Reggie Edwards. Thundercat
Music Time Church Band Energy Jazz Churches Those Would Would-Be City All-Around Known Because Up Same Just Same Time Grew Happening Jazz Band Playing
New Orleans jazz is a complex and embracing art form that began about the same time as the blues and encompassed many of its excellences. Tim Cahill
Art Time Jazz Complex Embracing About New New Orleans Art Form Began Same Same Time Blues Form Many Orleans
I started writing songs for youth theater and stuff, and so it's really writing music for the stage that started me out, but then I eventually went to music college and did a two-year course in contemporary music and then just played in endless bands, cover bands, jazz bands. Tim Minchin
Music Me Youth Writing College Stage Jazz Two-Year Out Songs Stuff Contemporary Contemporary Music Course Cover Bands Did Endless Just Theater Then Really Eventually Played Started
Jazz doesn't have much to do with how I write songs, but I am a big fan. My favorites are Oscar Peterson, Ahmad Jamal, and Mose Allison. Timothy B. Schmit
Big Jazz Favorites Allison Write Songs How Am Big Fan Fan Much Oscar
I was in a competing company and have been dancing since I was four - ballet, tap, jazz, hip hop - so it's a huge part of my life and my music. Tinashe
Life Music My Life Jazz Dancing Hop Part Since Hip Hip-Hop Ballet Been Tap Huge Huge Part Company Four Competing
When I started recording, I thought I'd be able to do all kinds of records: jazz, country, dance - and I've always wanted to do a gospel album. Tom Jones
Dance Thought Recording Country Jazz Kinds Able Records Gospel Always Wanted Started Album
I always hated jazz guitar. I loved jazz saxophone but I hated jazz guitar. If I would buy an organ trio record I would make sure I'd buy one that did not have a guitar player on it. The sound was awful! Tom Verlaine
Buy Guitar Organ Jazz Saxophone Guitar Player Would Hated Record Trio Make Sure Always Sound Did Loved Awful Player
The way jazz works is that we take a theme, and then we write using the same structure, same chord changes, and then we can do different tunes. Tommy Chong
Jazz Changes Way Structure Write Take Same Different Tunes Theme Then Using Works Chord
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. Toni Tennille
Me Dance Stage Jazz Furniture More Make Ballet Years Graceful Any Just Helped Lessons Keep
Presley is country music, white music. Jazz is black music - it was invented by the blacks in New Orleans. And I'm really a jazz singer. I was impressed with Elvis - he was the handsomest guy I ever met in my life, and a very nice person, too. But the music doesn't impress me. Tony Bennett
Life Music Me Black My Life Country Met Impress White Jazz Nice Too Elvis Black Music Blacks Guy Invented He New Country Music Singer New Orleans Impressed Very Person Really Jazz Singer Nice Person Ever Orleans
I loved Art Tatum! And, through him, and other different jazz musicians, I actually found my technique. Tony Bennett
Art Musicians Jazz Other Through Him Different Loved Jazz Musicians Found Actually Technique
My early influences were the Shadows, who were an English instrumental band. They basically got me into playing and later on I got into blues and jazz players. I liked Clapton when he was with John Mayall. I really liked that period. Tony Iommi
Me Band Jazz Later Clapton John Shadows He Liked Period Instrumental Got Were Blues Influences Really English Who Players Early Playing Basically
Well, being a jazz musician is not a rose garden! Toots Thielemans
Garden Jazz Rose Musician Well Well-Being Being Jazz Musician
I grew up with music in the house. I was told I could sing as soon as I started talking. Everybody in my family sang, always lots of records, blues and jazz and soul, R&B, you know, like Mahalia Jackson, Aretha Franklin, Coltrane, that kind of thing. Tracy Chapman
Music Family You Soul Jazz Everybody Franklin Kind Records Aretha Aretha Franklin Could Coltrane Soon Like Know House Sing Talking Always Lots Up Jackson Blues Grew Sang Thing Started
The most ironic thing is my grandfather has his masters in music composition; he was a jazz composer. My dad was a musician, too. He played more, like, soul music. Travis Scott
Music Soul Jazz Too Musician Composer Composition More He Like Most Masters Soul Music His Ironic Grandfather Dad Thing Played
From the food to the Mardi Gras Indians to the brass bands and the second liners parading through the street, Jazz Fest presents New Orleans in one place. Trombone Shorty
Food Jazz Indians Through New New Orleans Bands Brass Place Orleans Street Second Presents
Certain jazz musicians just copy what was done 100 years ago. The music won't grow if nobody takes a risk. Trombone Shorty
Music Musicians Jazz Risk Takes Nobody Years Years Ago Done Just Certain Jazz Musicians Grow Copy
Being jazz-trained, things happen spontaneously. Even though it's funk rock, we still have the instincts of a jazz musician. Trombone Shorty
Jazz Though Musician Instincts Spontaneously Rock Still Being Happen Jazz Musician Even Things Things Happen Funk
It's easy to mock a man who has founded a religion based on John Coltrane, who considers 'A Love Supreme,' whatever its merits as a jazz album, to be holy scripture. Tucker Carlson
Love Religion Man Whatever Jazz Considers Easy John John Coltrane Coltrane Merits Supreme Mock Scripture Holy Who Based Founded Album
Load more quotes

No more jazz quotes

Haven't find the right quote? Try another of these similiar topics.

About
Site pages
Top Quotes
Authors
Today's birthdays
Copyright © Quotesia 2025