Jazz Quotes - Page 2

Jazz has borrowed from other genres of music and also has lent itself to other genres of music.

All a musician can do is to get closer to the source.

A genius is the one most like himself.

Jazz is played from the heart. You can even live by it. Always love it.

The drummer; he inspired me to play like no one else I have ever met.

When you sing, always tell the truth.

The whole rise of new adult contemporary music and smooth jazz was a nice surprise.

When you know the lyrics to a tune, you have some kind of insight as to it's composition.

A short story relies on those values that make poetry and jazz what they are: tension, rhythms, inner beat, into unforeseen within foreseen parameters

The spirit of jazz is the spirit of openness.

You are the music while the music lasts.

It was when I found out I could make mistakes that I knew I was on to something.

Jazz is smooth and cool. Jazz is rage. Jazz flows like water. Jazz never seems to begin or end. Jazz isn't methodical, but jazz isn't messy either. Jazz is a conversation, a give and take. Jazz is the connection and communication between musicians. Jazz is abandon.

I didn't know there were 2 ten o'clocks in a day.

For me, music and life are all about style.

I love that pre-mod jazz look of the late Fifties, the Steve McQueen style that influenced the British modernists.

Playing 'bop' is like playing Scrabble with all the vowels missing.

One of the reasons we're here is to be a part of this process of exchange.

Conductors must give unmistakable and suggestive signals to the orchestra, not choreography to the audience.

Jazz shouldn't have any mandates. Jazz is not supposed to be something that's required to sound like jazz. For me, the word 'jazz' means, 'I dare you.'

Change is always happening. That's one of the wonderful things about Jazz music.

Imitate, assimilate, and innovate.

There are notes between notes, you know.

You should never be comfortable, man. Being comfortable fouled up a lot of musicians.

There are no natural barriers. It's all music. It's either hip or it ain't.