Jazz Quotes - Page 14

The greatest thing about music is putting it out there for people to figure out.

You don't know what you like, you like what you know. In order to know what you like, you have to know everything.

I listen to and I play all kinds of music, and I'm interested in jazz and in bluegrass - I like it all - but Cuban music speaks to me in a certain way.

Where I grew up, Bob Wills and his western swing was very popular. And western swing is not that far from jazz and blues.

Records used to be documents, but now record companies want product.

If you really dissect hip-hop you will find a whole lot of Charles Mingus, Ron Carter, Ahmad Jamal, a lot of classic jazz samples in there.

I'm not really married to the craft of jazz - I'm married to me, and my style, and whatever I produce.

Music should never be harmless.

Diplomacy is like jazz: endless variations on a theme.

Jazz is something that you have to feel. It's something that you have to live.

We're working as if it were going out of style-which of course it is.

Montreal was a very active jazz center until club owners started putting in strippers instead of music. Before long, there was nothing to hear.

I don't understand the music but I certainly understand the girl singer!

Jazz is one of the few things you can do in society and express yourself freely and creatively.

Jazz is like a great blues band that fell down the stairs

Diana Krall knocks me out. I like jazz and I like her simple approach.

I'm a person of change and I must be honest to my artistry and my creativity. That's part of the word 'jazz'... it's an adventure.

If you don't like Louis Armstrong, you don't know how to love.

What I like is not a particular genre, it's storytelling. There's a lot of great storytelling in jazz, and in folk and in country music.

It's not jazz as we know jazz here in America.

Music is the shorthand of emotion. Emotions, which let themselves be described in words with such difficulty, are directly conveyed to man in music, and in that is its power and significance.

Historians in the future, in my opinion, will congratulate us on very little other than our clowning and our jazz.

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.

Jazz will endure just as long people hear it through their feet instead of their brains.

In the year of 1902, when I was about seventeen years old, I happened to invade one of the sections [in New Orleans] where the birth of Jazz originated from.