Jazz Quotes - Page 27

Jazz speaks for life. This is triumphant music.

I never studied jazz technically; I just know and love the music.

There are a million good tunes.

I do ballet and pointe work. I also do tap, commercial jazz and technical jazz, freestyle street dancing.

Everybody in Germany was for the -German cause. But then, after the war ended, when I heard the first Glenn Miller sound on the radio and these fantastic American music makers, I turned into a jazz fanatic. They called me Benny, after Benny Goodman. So, all of a sudden, the eyes of young Germans were opened to America - everything American was absolutely at the top of the list.

What I've been trying to do for years is to get the music played on a station other than jazz stations, you know, to expand the audience.

Jazz groups have to make a living any way.

A lot of jazz is like that; it sells over a period of time.

I hate Stanley Clark, but I have to admit he's playing Jazz whether I like it or not.

My first guitar, a Fender Jazz Master, I traded it in for a Les Paul Deluxe.

The jazz musician's function is to feel.

I listen to classical music very much. There's a lot of jazz that I don't enjoy listening to.

Taxi drivers used to ask me what kind of music I did, and I'd say, 'Well, it's kind of jazz, soul, classical' - but that makes no sense to anyone.

John Stowell plays jazz, but he doesn’t use any of the clichés; he has an incredible originality. John is a master creator.

Frankie Randall is a consummate performer. He is an exquisite jazz pianist and wonderful singer. I had the great pleasure to work with him on the Dean Martin Show and I'm very proud to call him a friend!

I've always explored things that people find a bit more freakish, like free jazz, and I'd gotten to a point where the live music I was making was really hectic and turning much more confrontational. So when I started working on Everything Ecstatic, that was very normal for me. I think it was a departure, but people read it as an escape from something, whereas every record I do is, I feel, a departure.

Well, Grover Washington was my main influence and when I went to college, I started listening to more of the jazz masters like Sonny Rollins, Cannonball Adderley, and John Coltrane.

I've been around jazz and jazz musicians most of my life.

If I'm not a jazz player all the time, I've at least been cued in to what I do by jazz.

When I joined the band I didn't know any of the tunes, and when I left the band I didn't know any of the tunes!

If I was not a film-maker I'd probably be a musician. I like Kanye West, Jay-Z, R&B, classical, jazz and all kinds of music, but I'd say soulful World Music is my favorite.

I did get to sing at Carnegie Hall when they were made Landmarks! I sang ALL THAT JAZZ with the NY Pops ...what a total thrill.

Jazz is not the format where I want to stay, but it really is a starting point for me.

I love that [ late-50s Verve recordings] - to me, that's the epitome of vocal jazz. It's my favorite style and era of it.

When I sort of step in my jazz world, it's somewhere between instrumental jazz and vocal jazz.