Jazz Quotes - Page 15

Jazz is rhythm and meaning.

Most of the music I've become interested in is hybrid in its originsClassical music, of course, is unbelievably hybrid. Jazz is an obvious amalgam. Bluegrass comes from eighteenth-century Scottish and Irish folk music that made contact with the blues. By exploring music, you're exploring everything.

Jazz was home. It created a hunger within me.

You never get it figured out. You just keep playing.

I prefer no one to teach me. I prefer to swing on my own.

Bop is no love-child of jazz.

The jazz and blues clubs are like the jazz and blues musicians - they're disappearing.

Romanticism implies nostalgia for damaged goods.

I think when I feel I'm at my best is when I'm on stage, and it's my version of jazz because it's just riffing or something.

There's nothing wrong with it. It's only a word. What's in a name? Nothing! Cats say, "Call me Muhammed so-and-so. "

Who knows ... we'll be playing Jazz and having a good time!

Jazz is the music of the body.

Jazz music is the power of now.

Sustained intensity equals ecstacy.

Don't bullshit' just play.

The point of jazz is, you do something and then you go on.

I find my inspiration in myself.

Miles'd got killed if he hit me.

Jazz is my adventure.

I started in New Orleans music and played all through the history of jazz.

Every conversation is a form of Jazz. The activity of instantaneous creation is as ordinary to us as breathing.

What I wanted to do was music, until I was about 16. But it was jazz and rock, never classical music.

Let the music speak for itself.

It seems that jazz is more cerebral and more mathematical in a sense.

I love more percussions more than anything. I always wanted to be a drummer.