"I wanted to make a jazz record. I didn't want it to be a standards record."

Jazz, Want

37

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

Exlpore more Jazz quotes

"If you play jazz, then you play with your fingers. If you're playing rock, you use a pick. There's really no rhyme or reason to that other than that's just the way it has been."

Kevin Eubanks, American Musician

Jazz, Play, Reason

"I think Wes Montgomery is the greatest jazz guitarist that ever lived."

Kevin Eubanks, American Musician

Jazz,

"Once you start collecting records you learn more and more about jazz and blues."

John Mayall, British Musician

Jazz,

"It seems that jazz is more cerebral and more mathematical in a sense."

Rita Coolidge, American Musician

Jazz, Sense

"Today jazz is still very much alive. Everywhere I go there's a new generation of musicians."

Toots Thielemans, Belgian Musician

Jazz, Musicians, Today

"I don't want to sound as if I'm doing something tremendously special. But I am a jazz fan."

Norman Granz, American Musician

Jazz, Sound, Want

"Jazz was uplifted by what I did."

Norman Granz, American Musician

Jazz,

"I was totally into jazz in my teens."

Andy Summers, English Musician

Jazz,

"The only element of jazz that I keep is improvisation."

Jan Garbarek, Norwegian Musician

Jazz,

"I've played with all of the heavyweights in the modern jazz, progressive jazz movement. I've been fortunate enough to play with them, a who's who. All of those guys, I've been fortunate enough to have performed with."

Sonny Rollins, American Musician

Jazz, Play

Explore more quotes by Rita Coolidge

"If I'm driving to L.A. and have anxiety about making the drive, if I've got Peggy with me, we're cool."

Anxiety

"I'm not stopping. My dream has come true, and I'm staying."

Dream

"I've got my whole life. There's a lifetime of experience, a lifetime of experiencing the road and the music and different players. It makes me a richer human being. I have a greater source of information to tap into, a wealth of life."

Life

"I think the challenges for me was to go into the studio with these incredible jazz players and come up to their level of excellence. That's always a challenge."

Challenge

"The month of September is Women in Jazz, so I'm doing jazz there in September. I'm in for the duration."

Woman

"My grandmother passed at 104. She sang and wrote songs until she passed."

Music

37

Standard

Customized

Exlpore more Jazz quotes

"If you play jazz, then you play with your fingers. If you're playing rock, you use a pick. There's really no rhyme or reason to that other than that's just the way it has been."

"I think Wes Montgomery is the greatest jazz guitarist that ever lived."

"Once you start collecting records you learn more and more about jazz and blues."

"It seems that jazz is more cerebral and more mathematical in a sense."

"Today jazz is still very much alive. Everywhere I go there's a new generation of musicians."

"I don't want to sound as if I'm doing something tremendously special. But I am a jazz fan."

"Jazz was uplifted by what I did."

"I was totally into jazz in my teens."

"The only element of jazz that I keep is improvisation."

"I've played with all of the heavyweights in the modern jazz, progressive jazz movement. I've been fortunate enough to play with them, a who's who. All of those guys, I've been fortunate enough to have performed with."

Explore more quotes by Rita Coolidge

"I say what's in my heart, and I do it in my concerts."

"I choose things by how they resonate in my heart."

"It seems that jazz is more cerebral and more mathematical in a sense."

"Possibly, I should have been a jazz singer from the beginning."

"If I'm driving to L.A. and have anxiety about making the drive, if I've got Peggy with me, we're cool."

"I'm not stopping. My dream has come true, and I'm staying."

"I've got my whole life. There's a lifetime of experience, a lifetime of experiencing the road and the music and different players. It makes me a richer human being. I have a greater source of information to tap into, a wealth of life."

"I think the challenges for me was to go into the studio with these incredible jazz players and come up to their level of excellence. That's always a challenge."

"The month of September is Women in Jazz, so I'm doing jazz there in September. I'm in for the duration."

"My grandmother passed at 104. She sang and wrote songs until she passed."