Jazz Quotes
Coming to jazz early, late, or not much at all.
This set is candidly mixed on jazz - one voice regrets missing it young and finding it intimidating later, another admits to just not being a big fan. See Blues quotes for a closely related genre.
I love the sounds of Latin jazz, R&B, hip-hop, alternative, all that stuff. I'm a radio kid.
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Jazz is a music of great achievements but speed and chops serve a different function in jazz.
In 1962 I wrote for 'Jazz News,' using the pseudonym Manfred Manne, which I picked because of a jazz drummer with that name. I later dropped the 'e.'
I have two main bass guitars, and my main bass is a four-string 1964 Fender Jazz, and I've named it Justine.
My band, Miles Long, is a jazz-funk spoken word band. There's jazz sensibilities, but I'm a bass player, so I'm very much into the head-bobbing vibe with sophisticated lyrics.
Gospel music rhythms are not African in origin, although I know that's what the jazz experts say.
I studied jazz at home with my grandparents. They always had jazz dudes at the house, but I didn't study formally. I just hung around a lot of musicians.
I don't really get the same kinda romance that I would get from, like, jazz. And even to a lesser extent to rock 'n roll. Rock 'n roll has a romance to it - how can I put it? A...
The blues is the foundation, and it's got to carry the top. The other part of the scene, the rock 'n' roll and the jazz, are the walls of the blues.
When I was in college, I had a jazz radio show. I called it 'Excursion on a Wobbly Rail,' after a Cecil Taylor song. I used to run around the Village following Ornette Coleman wherever he played.
Jazz has a lot to do with being very present. You know the structure, then you flow through it.
I studied opera for a year at Georgia State University, but I wasn't interested in that meticulous, technical approach to music. So I left school and went back to jazz.
George Benson conquered many different genres, from pop ballads to R&B to jazz.
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Others describe jazz as one thread in an eclectic mix of listening, or simply as the music that defines their work. Browse Love quotes or Like quotes for more personal-taste reflections.
