Jazz Quotes - Page 8

How do I know why Miles walks off the stage? Why don't you ask him? And besides, maybe we'd all like to be like Miles, and just haven't got the guts.

Imitate, assimilate & innovate.

Improvisation is the ability to talk to oneself.

I cringed when I heard myself described as a Jazz singer. I've always thought of myself as a Jazz vocalist.

When I got pretty good I went on the road with a group. We starved.

What I'm dealing with is so vast and great that it can't be called the truth. It's above the truth.

He's not a performer, he's not a composer, he's not even a musician, but Norman Granz is Mr. Jazz.

Whatever else has been said about me personally is unimportant. When I sing, I believe. I'm honest.

So easy, when you know how.

Bop is at the end of the road. Now everybody wants dance music.

Jazz was born out of the whiskey bottle, was raised on marijiana, and will expire on cocaine.

You can't teach it [jazz singing]. There's nobody who can teach you how to sing jazz. Either you know how to sing jazz, or you don't.

I made the wrong mistakes

I think if it wasn't for the blues, there wouldn't be no jazz.

Jazz is something you have to feel, something you have to live.

I ... started out to become a jazz pianist; in the meantime I started singing and I sang the way I felt and that's just the way it came out.

Let your life be your music and let your music be your life.

By its very nature, no one person can ever be the center of Jazz.

I'm into scales right now.

Jazz is a music that is open enough to borrow from any other form of music, and has the strength to influence any other form of music.

We must be as pure as our music.

I've really gone into business since I got the 6 string, which was like starting all over.

Jazz is a state of mind. There's no boundaries.

If you understood everything I say, you'd be me!

All bad jazz sounds like Woody Woodpecker.