Jazz Quotes - Page 16

Fusion has been my nemesis.

Jazz is not something that can be defined through blunt instruments. It is much more poetic than that.

I am famous because I am an African American jazz artist.

Jazz is an Uncle Tom word. They should stop using that word for selling. I told George Wein the other day that he should stop using it.

Music is an addiction.

Jazz musicians have some outlaw in them somewhere.

Jazz speaks for life. The Blues tell the story of life's difficulties.

I like everything, jazz and classical, and all over the spectrum.

You will never know what the meaning of Jazz is if ask what it means.

What has been America's most nurturing contribution to the culture of this planet so far? Many would say jazz. I, who love jazz, will say this instead: Alcoholics Anonymous.

I listen to jazz mainly. Mainstream jazz.

When rock music came in, I wasn't bitter about it. I was puzzled.

In the sense that I also try to reflect the fullness of the black experience, I’m very much a jazz poet.

Growing up, I was very much interested in jazz music.

The blues and jazz will live forever... So will the Delta and the Big Easy.

If you keep your head in the sand, you don't know where the kick's coming from.

He would forget everybody's name, so everybody was called 'Pops'.

Lately, Ive been listening to some jazz albums. I love the new Pat Metheny album. John Coltrane. I still like good metal, though!

I don't know if I have enough guts to do a whole standard jazz record.

My mother always wanted me to be a jazz singer, but I always wanted to be raunchy.

At a time when individualism is becoming an endangered species, jazz represents a celebration of the individual.

As any jazz musician knows, it takes flexibility and adaptability for improvisation to create beauty.

I'd like to play for you one of my compositions, my only composition.

To me, jazz is the closest thing to insanity that there is in music.

There are editing procedures for talks just as there are editing procedures in jazz improvisation.