Jazz Quotes - Page 19

I like to know for whom I'm writing - it makes the composition easier to do.

Rather than say I play Jazz, I simply say I play music.

Jazz is a very accurate, curiously accurate accompaniment to 20th century America.

A jazz beat is a dynamic changing rhythm.

Rock and roll ain't nothing but jazz with a hard backbeat.

As a rule, my focus is on classical music, but I love jazz. I love everything, actually.

Nothing says “i came here to win” like jazz hands

Well, actually, I don't consider myself a jazz legend or anything.

I have a bachelor's and a master's in jazz.

The jazz trombone is a magical experience particularly to hear and listen too.

I love to hear the note sing.

You can't make jazz without using certain elements of Latin music.

The only element of jazz that I keep is improvisation.

If you're in jazz and more than ten people like you, you're labeled commercial.

It's not the style that motivates me, as much as an attitude of openness that I have when I go into a project.

I'm always looking to create new avenues or new visions of music.

The music becomes something that is its own entity.

There are wonderful things in Jazz, the improvisation, the liveliness, the being at one with the audience.

Life on the road is murder. It's as though life begins and ends when you have your horn in your mouth.

An entire composition written in jazz could not live.

Jazz is for joy. It's for euphoria, it's for emotion, and anguish, and excitement, and all of the joys that great art can produce, and if it loses that, then it's lost everything.

I like mellow music. I like some jazz. But I'm not a big hard rock guy.

Improvising musicians are musical travelers, voyagers. There is a freedom to wander the musical landscape.

I love jazz music and sad music.

Jazz is the music of unemployment.