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 hate Stanley Clark, but I have to admit he's playing Jazz whether I like it or not.
They always say that jazz doesn't sell, but it's a lie, because it does sell, and it sells consistently year in and year out.
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I belonged to the Columbia Record Club, and that's where my records came from. For some reason, I was in the 'jazz' category. I got Benny Goodman records and Miles Davis, J.J. Johnson and Kai Winding, and that kind of...
My first guitar, a Fender Jazz Master, I traded it in for a Les Paul Deluxe.
Most jazz players work out their solos, at least to the extent that they have a very specific vocabulary.
I listen to classical music very much. There's a lot of jazz that I don't enjoy listening to.
Bernstein grew up in my building in New York. He's a very, very fine player. When he was a kid, he came by to find out what was going on in the world of jazz.
When I was about 18, I really started diving into Dave Matthews Band and John Mayer Trio and some of those things that have jazz elements but also a pop feel.
I've never been on a board, but I just went on the board for Jazz at Lincoln Center. I'm very happy about that.
At 14 and 15, I used to listen to Tito Puente, Dave Valentine and everything that was happening with American jazz. I love it.
I'm a jazz musician, and I really wanted to not miss an opportunity to have the full connection to jazz.
My CD collection has a lot of world music - lots of Indian, African, Portuguese, Greek, Italian music. Because of my husband, a lot of jazz, too.
I've mainly been sampling jazz because the tone of the chords are expressive in itself, so it's quite nice to write over. It's got interpretations of a lot of different genres, too, a lot of dubby-ness and experimental stuff.
I think everybody has to kind of decide what the word 'jazz' means to them, and that's fine.
Just figure out what you think jazz is, and then if it fits into that category, it's jazz, and if it doesn't, it isn't. It's no big deal.
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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.
