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Smooth Jazz Quotes

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

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

Kenny G
Nice, Smooth Jazz, Adults
"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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.

Nat Wolff
Communication, Cool Jazz, Smooth Jazz
"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Whoever invented smooth jazz, man, I wanna kill 'em: You're turning an art form into a hooker.

Phil Woods
Art, Men, Smooth Jazz

I couldn't get my album played over the so-called smooth jazz stations. Jazz stations would not play it. You don't always know who you're making that soul connection with.

Roy Ayers
Play, Smooth Jazz, Soul

People are always defining and re-defining music. My style of playing has been characterized as smooth jazz and acid jazz. I listen as I play; I'm not caught up in defining the type of music I play.

Roy Ayers
Play, Smooth Jazz, People

Jazz music should be inclusive. Smooth jazz to me rules out a certain kind of drama and a certain tension that I think all music needs. Especially jazz music, since improvising is one of the cornerstones of what jazz is. And when you smooth it out, you take all the drama out of it.

David Sanborn
Drama, Thinking, Smooth Jazz
"Once-stricken saxman: Music 'gave me my life'". Interview with Shanon Cook, www.cnn.com. August 15, 2008.

My other friends are in music relaxation class, which I do not attend, because smooth jazz makes me angry sometimes.

Matthew Quick
Class, Smooth Jazz, Relaxation
Matthew Quick (2010). “The Silver Linings Playbook”, p.6, Pan Macmillan

Say That! is an iron fist upside the mushy head of smooth jazz, and Grant Geissman's defiant declaration of independence.

Bill Milkowski
Smooth Jazz, Iron, Independence

Dinner 'conversation' at the Cohens' meant my sister, mom, and I relaying in brutal detail the day's events in a state of amplified hysteria, while my father listened to his own smooth jazz station in his head.

Andy Cohen
Mom, Father, Smooth Jazz
Andy Cohen (2012). “Most Talkative: Stories from the Front Lines of Pop Culture”, p.7, Macmillan

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