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Jazz Quotes
"So our ears got used to listening to jazz in the place that it was that the bass player could not play. No one really realized it and really addressed it until the bass players who could play their instrument came along and started doing something with it."
29
"Well, I guess my unease with that is... I'm always a little uneasy with that phrase - smooth jazz, as opposed to what?"
Jazz,
20
"Jazz is there and gone. It happens. You have to be present for it. That simple."
16
"I'm really getting to appreciate traditional jazz now - the New Orleans stuff - a lot more than I did before."
14
"I was considered as a jazz man rather than as a blues player. There were no blues players-you played one sort of jazz of another sort of jazz."
13
"I, of course, wanted to play real jazz. When we played pop tunes, and naturally we had to, I wanted those pops to kick! Not loud and fast, understand, but smoothly and with a definite punch."
12
"It's not exclusive, but inclusive, which is the whole spirit of jazz."
12
"The way that we imitate each others' riffs is something that other bands don't do as much. If we're jamming with a jazz band, or I am jamming with a jazz band, I have to catch myself, the tendency is always to do that."
Jazz,
11
"I cut myself off from the mainstream of jazz. It stood me in good stead later on, as a musician."
Jazz,
11
"Sometimes you need to stand with your nose to the window and have a good look at jazz. And I've done that on many occasions."
Jazz,
11
"I continued studying by myself in the field of jazz with my own technique of improvisation, walking bass lines, rhythms, all kinds of stuff, which I created for myself."
10
"It is rare that even a jazz musician finds an individual voice."
10
"Miles Davis fully embraced possibilities and delved into it. He was criticized heavily from the jazz side. He was supposed to be part of a tradition, but he didn't consider himself part of a tradition."
10
"I have been steadily exchanging a rock audience who were nervous about what they had just bought for a jazz audience who not only were happy with their purchase, but are increasingly coming again."
Jazz,
10
"Writing is like jazz. It can be learned, but it can't be taught."
10
"Coltrane was moving out of jazz into something else. And certainly Miles Davis was doing the same thing."
Jazz,
9
"You not only have to know your own instrument, you must know the others and how to back them up at all times. That's jazz."
Jazz,
9
"Clifford Brown was in the jazz circles considered to be probably the greatest trumpet player who ever lived."
Jazz,
9
"I think that one of the problems that jazz has is that it's so incestuous that it's starting to kill itself."
8
"As a kid, I used to go see all the jazz players, Oscar Peterson, Stan Kenton, Dave Brubeck, Dizzy Gillespe."
Jazz,
8
"I am not a jazz singer. I wouldn't place myself on that footing. I wouldn't even enter that arena."
Jazz,
8
"The blues and jazz will live forever... So will the Delta and the Big Easy."
8
"The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician."
7
"One of the things I like about jazz, kid, is I don't know what's going to happen next. Do you?"
Jazz,
7
"Jazz is not something that can be defined through blunt instruments. It is much more poetic than that."
Jazz,
7
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