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Jazz is the music of the body. The breath comes through brass. It is the body's breath, and the strings' wails and moans are echoes of the body's music. It is the body's vibrations which ripple from the fingers. And the mystery of the withheld theme, known to jazz musicians alone, is like the mystery of our secret life. We give to others only peripheral improvisations. ~ Anais Nin
Jazz Musician quotes by Anais Nin
Jazz is very much alive. Everywhere I go there's a new generation of musicians playing Jazz music. ~ Toots Thielemans
Jazz Musician quotes by Toots Thielemans
I really love jazz, but I will never be a jazz musician as much as I dream. But, I think that the jazz music I love is there in my music. ~ Laura Mvula
Jazz Musician quotes by Laura Mvula
I have always been a person who is concerned with the dignity of jazz music and the way jazz musicians have been treated and are treated, and the fact that the music has not been given the kind of due that it deserves. ~ Sonny Rollins
Jazz Musician quotes by Sonny Rollins
If he's a true symphony artist, he knows better than that because he knows that the only truly creative musician is the jazz musician. ~ Buddy Rich
Jazz Musician quotes by Buddy Rich
I got my love of jazz from my stepfather, who was a jazz musician. ~ Flea
Jazz Musician quotes by Flea
When I came to New York, to Brooklyn, I met Alvin Ailey and Stanley Crouch and August Wilson. They were always putting things in a philosophical context. All the great jazz musicians did, too. There was always a sub-context to what they were saying about music even though they would be very down home and earthy. So I started to develop, in addition to my power and ability to simply hear, a way to place myself in a time. ~ Wynton Marsalis
Jazz Musician quotes by Wynton Marsalis
Actually John, Paul Rutherford, and Trevor Watts, and several other rather well known English jazz musicians had got their training by joining the Air Force, which was a pretty standard way for people to get some kind of musical education in those days. ~ Evan Parker
Jazz Musician quotes by Evan Parker
The first jazz musician was a trumpeter, Buddy Bolden, and the last will be a trumpeter, the archangel Gabriel. ~ Wynton Marsalis
Jazz Musician quotes by Wynton Marsalis
If you're making money people don't think you're playing Jazz. When you're not making money they think you're a great Jazz musician. ~ Pete Fountain
Jazz Musician quotes by Pete Fountain
He [Benny Carter] is all that every jazz musician the world over wants to be. He's performed 20,000 nights. How many shoes have been shined? How much mascara put on? Rouge? How many of those impossible bowties have been tied? How many love songs have been sung? How many dances have been danced? How many have passed to the sound of his music? It's been said that a man should not be forced to live up to his art. Benny Carter is one of the rare instances when we wonder whether the great art that a man has created can live up to him. ~ Wynton Marsalis
Jazz Musician quotes by Wynton Marsalis
My short answer would be that there is no greatest jazz musician of the century. Jazz, like any valid art form, finds its greatness in its expression of the human spirit, and, to me, this can't be reduced to a contest. ~ Bennie Wallace
Jazz Musician quotes by Bennie Wallace
Jazz musicians are the coolest people on the planet. Can I have some cool? ~ Jon Stewart
Jazz Musician quotes by Jon Stewart
If I knew what it was going to look like, I wouldnt be so excited to be a part of it. Jazz is a music of surprise; its a music of spontaneity. I think jazz musicians live
I know I do
for being surprised and not knowing whats going to come next. ~ Joshua Redman
Jazz Musician quotes by Joshua Redman
The worst thing about the life of a jazz musician on the road is getting to the gig. Once you're there and playing, it's marvelous. ~ Dave Brubeck
Jazz Musician quotes by Dave Brubeck
I don't think I've ever been true to jazz. There's always a kind of jazz element to what I do. There are a very few genres that I haven't tried out, really, in what I've been doing. As a jazz musician, you can kind of mess about with things with a certain level of musicianship, which helps. ~ Jamie Cullum
Jazz Musician quotes by Jamie Cullum
It is rare that even a jazz musician finds an individual voice. ~ David Baker
Jazz Musician quotes by David Baker
When I'm working behind a camera, I feel like I'm trying to achieve something like a jazz musician does. ~ Jack Welpott
Jazz Musician quotes by Jack Welpott
I grew up in a home filled with music and had an early appreciation of jazz since my dad was a jazz musician. Beginning at around age three I started singing with his band and jazz music has continued to be one of my three passions along with acting and writing. I like to say jazz music is my musical equivalent of comfort food. It's always where I go back to when I want to feel grounded, ~ Molly Ringwald
Jazz Musician quotes by Molly Ringwald
I started as a musician. I play the saxophone, but from the age of 17, I realised that it's very hard to make a living as a jazz musician in Australia. So I went for an audition and got an acting job and, fortunately, I completely fell in love with that. ~ John Polson
Jazz Musician quotes by John Polson
I'm a jazz musician by education and vocation, but I don't think jazz should [ dictate] what I want to do. ~ Dave Douglas
Jazz Musician quotes by Dave Douglas
When I was a kid, I wanted desperately to be a jazz musician. I would practice the trumpet for hours, but when I got braces, that messed up my ability to play, so all of a sudden I had all this free time. ~ Zach Woods
Jazz Musician quotes by Zach Woods
As any jazz musician knows, it takes flexibility and adaptability for improvisation to create beauty. ~ Doc Childre
Jazz Musician quotes by Doc Childre
I never had much interest in the piano until I realized that every time I played, a girl would appear on the piano bench to my left and another to my right. ~ Duke Ellington
Jazz Musician quotes by Duke Ellington
My music is the spiritual expression of what I am - my faith, my knowledge, my being ... When you begin to see the possibilities of music, you desire to do something really good for people, to help humanity free itself from its hangups ... I want to speak to their souls. ~ John Coltrane
Jazz Musician quotes by John Coltrane
If I don't practice for a day, I know it. If I don't practice for two days, the critics know it. And if I don't practice for three days, the public knows it. ~ Louis Armstrong
Jazz Musician quotes by Louis Armstrong
As a jazz musician, you have individual power to create the sound. You also have a responsibility to function in the context of other people who have that power also. ~ Wynton Marsalis
Jazz Musician quotes by Wynton Marsalis
Eclecticism is the word. Like a jazz musician who creates his own style out of the styles around him, I play by ear. ~ Ralph Ellison
Jazz Musician quotes by Ralph Ellison
I knew I could never be accepted as a straight-ahead jazz musician, nor would Iaccept myself as that. I would never be accepted as a minimalist. I wouldn't be adowntown composer. Because I find all orthodoxies, all doctrines to be ultimatelybanal. ~ Anthony Davis
Jazz Musician quotes by Anthony Davis
I went to Juilliard in New York and used to do cabarets just for fun. Occasionally, I would get together with a jazz musician and play at a restaurant for cash. And I've done some background vocals for recording artists. ~ Nicole Beharie
Jazz Musician quotes by Nicole Beharie
I know I'm an African-American, and I know I play the saxophone, but I'm not a jazz musician. I'm not a classical musician, either. My music is like my life: It's in between these areas. ~ Anthony Braxton
Jazz Musician quotes by Anthony Braxton
Jazz music is an intensified feeling of nonchalance. ~ Francoise Sagan
Jazz Musician quotes by Francoise Sagan
Once the jazz musician learns all the fundamentals they can keep track of a lot of choices in an instant. ~ Sheena Iyengar
Jazz Musician quotes by Sheena Iyengar
I'd have no trouble being the barbecue kingpin of America. I'd just add it to all the other things I am: jazz musician, carpenter, architect, engineer and revolutionary. ~ Bobby Seale
Jazz Musician quotes by Bobby Seale
In Europe, they like everything you do. The mistakes and everything. That's a little bit too much. ~ Miles Davis
Jazz Musician quotes by Miles Davis
But you listen to Coltrane and that's something human, something that's about elevation. It's like making love to a woman. It's about something of value, it's not just loud. It doesn't have that violent connotation to it. I wanted to be a jazz musician so bad, but I really couldn't. There was no way I could figure out to learn how to play. ~ Wynton Marsalis
Jazz Musician quotes by Wynton Marsalis
There's a category for me. I like to be referred to as a good singer of good songs in good taste. ~ Sarah Vaughan
Jazz Musician quotes by Sarah Vaughan
I don't listen to a lot of music when I have my free time. But I'll go to a jazz club and have a drink and listen to a good jazz musician. Or sometimes in the morning, if I want to put myself in a good mood, I'll put on some Latin music. ~ Joshua Bell
Jazz Musician quotes by Joshua Bell
Regardless of what you play, the biggest thing is keeping the feel going. ~ Wes Montgomery
Jazz Musician quotes by Wes Montgomery
It is jazz music that called me to be a musician and I have always sang the songs that moved me the most. ~ Harry Connick, Jr.
Jazz Musician quotes by Harry Connick, Jr.
I'm not a jazz musician, because, I mean, firstly, I can't play anything. I'm not bad on the tamborine. I have a certain way with the triangle. But I'm not a jazz musician ... my band, they always joke, they always say that I'm a disposable, pop, jazz superstar. ~ Michael Buble
Jazz Musician quotes by Michael Buble
A jazz musician can improvise based on his knowledge of music. He understands how things go together. For a chef, once you have that basis, that's when cuisine is truly exciting. ~ Charlie Trotter
Jazz Musician quotes by Charlie Trotter
A jazz musician is a combination orator, dialectician, mathematician, athlete, entertainer, poet, singer, dancer, diplomat, educator, student, comedian, artist, seducer, public masturbator, and general all-round good fellow. ~ Steve Lacy
Jazz Musician quotes by Steve Lacy
It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands. ~ George Santayana
Jazz Musician quotes by George Santayana
Comedy is the drug, when they laugh it's like I'm a jazz musician and they hear it, and they get it. It's power to take the crowd wherever I want them to go. I love it when they laugh, especially when they relate through laughter. It's a beautiful thing. It also means I'm going to get paid, which is nice. ~ Alonzo Bodden
Jazz Musician quotes by Alonzo Bodden
I took some lessons as a kid but trained myself by ear. I did it the way jazz musicians used to learn years ago, which is to play records and slow them down to figure out the notes. At first I tried to imitate Red Garland, who was my favorite jazz pianist. ~ Donald Fagen
Jazz Musician quotes by Donald Fagen
Europe was a very contentious subject in literature and yet jazz musicians still depended on Europe. Now it's not such a big deal. ~ Darryl Pinckney
Jazz Musician quotes by Darryl Pinckney
In a conversation with the master jazz musician and Pulitzer Prize–winning composer Wynton Marsalis, he told me, "You need to have some restrictions in jazz. Anyone can improvise with no restrictions, but that's not jazz. Jazz always has some restrictions. Otherwise it might sound like noise." The ability to improvise, he said, comes from fundamental knowledge, and this knowledge "limits the choices you can make and will make ~ Sheena Iyengar
Jazz Musician quotes by Sheena Iyengar
I always tell my students when you're going to be a jazz musician the first thing you've got to do is be a professional musician, and that means you have to feed yourself with the instrument. ~ Lester Bowie
Jazz Musician quotes by Lester Bowie
The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician. Things like old folks singing in the moonlight in the back yard on a hot night or something said long ago. ~ Louis Armstrong
Jazz Musician quotes by Louis Armstrong
My father is a jazz musician, so I grew up hearing jazz. My parents loved it, but I didn't like it. It went on for too long. Yes, I had certain teachers that really inspired me, like Danny Barker, and John Longo. And I had no idea that I would have any impact on jazz. ~ Wynton Marsalis
Jazz Musician quotes by Wynton Marsalis
If you truly have expertise - and expertise can be say a chess master who has really mastered something or an artist or a musician of some sort you know if you give a jazz musician ... ~ Sheena Iyengar
Jazz Musician quotes by Sheena Iyengar
I don't like heroin, unless you're a jazz musician and then you have to be on it because jazz is the sound of heroin. ~ John Waters
Jazz Musician quotes by John Waters
One of the most obvious aspects of the music to people who know jazz is: How does it feel in the swing? These are things that are very subtle and that jazz musician appreciate in a particular way. I appreciate the way Tommy Flanagan swings, the way that Barry Harris swings, the great pulse that Hank Jones and Bill Evans have - end every one of them is different. ~ Chuck Israels
Jazz Musician quotes by Chuck Israels
CIA Interrogator:
Have you ever met any jazz musicians you would describe, or who would describe themselves, as anarchists?
Bartholomew 'Barley' Scott Blair:
Hmmm ... ah, there was a trombone player, Wilfred Baker.
Bartholomew 'Barley' Scott Blair:
He's the only jazz musician I can think of who is completely devoid of anarchist tendencies. ~ John Le Carre
Jazz Musician quotes by John Le Carre
In classical music, love is based on bitin'
imitation. It's not based on interpretation. A jazz musician, if he plays someone else's song, has a responsibility to make a distinct and original statement. ~ Todd Boyd
Jazz Musician quotes by Todd Boyd
Kansas City Lightning succeeds as few biographies of jazz musicians have ... This book is a magnificent achievement; I could hardly put it down. ~ Henry Louis Gates
Jazz Musician quotes by Henry Louis Gates
Jazz translates the moment into a sense of inspiration for not only the musicians but for the listeners. ~ Herbie Hancock
Jazz Musician quotes by Herbie Hancock
If income was directly proportional to technical proficiency and education, classical and jazz musicians would be some of the most affluent people in the world. ~ Robert Emerson Coleman
Jazz Musician quotes by Robert Emerson Coleman
A wise person knows when and how to make the exception to every rule. A wise person knows how to improvise. Real-world problems are often ambiguous and ill-defined and the context is always changing. A wise person is like a jazz musician -- using the notes on the page, but dancing around them, inventing combinations that are appropriate for the situation and the people at hand. ~ Barry Schwarz
Jazz Musician quotes by Barry Schwarz
You know, it's funny ... when you're making money, people don't think you're playing jazz. Now when you're not making money, people think that you're a good jazz musician. ~ Pete Fountain
Jazz Musician quotes by Pete Fountain
My dad is my biggest influence on me as a musician, even though he's not a musician. ~ Daron Malakian
Jazz Musician quotes by Daron Malakian
Change is always happening. That's one of the wonderful things about jazz music. ~ Maynard Ferguson
Jazz Musician quotes by Maynard Ferguson
I taught myself to play the guitar by listening to Paul Simon records, working it out note by note. He is an incredibly intelligent musician. He's not someone who has a natural outpouring of melody like McCartney or Dylan, who are just terribly prolific with musical ideas. ~ Douglas Adams
Jazz Musician quotes by Douglas Adams
Whenever there's a change with Jazz & its aesthetics, it's almost always reflected with a change in the culture. ~ Tom Harrell
Jazz Musician quotes by Tom Harrell
Jazz is all about improvisation and it's about the moment in time, doing it this way now, and you'll never do it this way twice. I've studied the masters. Why would I want to play ball after the guys who sit on a bench? I want to play like Michael Jordan. ~ Brian McKnight
Jazz Musician quotes by Brian McKnight
No dictatorship can tolerate jazz. It is the first sign of a return to freedom. ~ Dave Brubeck
Jazz Musician quotes by Dave Brubeck
Each time I leaped I seemed to touch the sky and when I regained earth it seemed to be mine alone. ~ Josephine Baker
Jazz Musician quotes by Josephine Baker
Jazz closed his eyes. ~ Barry Lyga
Jazz Musician quotes by Barry Lyga
artist, musician, ~ John Ortberg
Jazz Musician quotes by John Ortberg
I found my God in music and the arts, with writers like Hermann Hesse, and musicians like Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, and Little Walter. In some way, in some form, my God was always there, but now I have learned to talk to him. ~ Eric Clapton
Jazz Musician quotes by Eric Clapton
The first thing is, jazz is one of the few things to let you know that there is a God and there is a creation. ~ Billy Higgins
Jazz Musician quotes by Billy Higgins
The very first thing I remember in my early childhood is a flame, a blue flame jumping off a gas stove somebody lit... I remember being shocked by the whoosh of the blue flame jumping off the burner, the suddenness of it... I saw that flame and felt that hotness of it close to my face. I felt fear, real fear, for the first time in my life. But I remember it also like some kind of adventure, some kind of weird joy, too. I guess that experience took me someplace in my head I hadn't been before... The fear I had was almost like an invitation, a challenge to go forward into something I knew nothing about. That's where I think my personal philosophy of life and my commitment to everything I believe in started... In my mind I have always believed and thought since then that my motion had to be forward, away from the heat of that flame. ~ Miles Davis
Jazz Musician quotes by Miles Davis
As a musician, life is not over just because you are getting older, and so I find retirement a very frightening and dark thought. ~ Ian Anderson
Jazz Musician quotes by Ian Anderson
To me, all guitar players can play, because I know they're getting to where they're at. It's a very hard instrument to accept, because it takes years to start working with it, that's first, and it looks like everybody else is moving on the instrument but you. Then when you find a cat that's really playing, you always find that he's been playing a long time, you can't get around it. ~ Wes Montgomery
Jazz Musician quotes by Wes Montgomery
I'm basically a cocktail jazz kind of pianist. I'll be the first to admit that I'm not a very good keyboard player. People think I think I'm good. I think I'm a very poor piano player. ~ Ray Manzarek
Jazz Musician quotes by Ray Manzarek
The musician may sing to you of the rhythm which is in all space, but he cannot give you the ear which arrests the rhythm, nor the voice that echoes it. ~ Kahlil Gibran
Jazz Musician quotes by Kahlil Gibran
We are musicians, entertainers. We can do it. We have the right tools. No worries. ~ Pete Townshend
Jazz Musician quotes by Pete Townshend
Being a musician - it's easier for me to date an athlete. There's too much competition [with a musician]. There's too much know-it-all pop star. ~ Jessica Simpson
Jazz Musician quotes by Jessica Simpson
The human genome will not help us to understand the spiritual side of humankind, or to know who God is or what love is. The well-heeled couple who decide they want to use genetics to have a child that is a gifted musician may end up with a sullen adolescent who smokes marijuana and doesn't talk to them. ~ Francis Collins
Jazz Musician quotes by Francis Collins
I do after-school ballet and also hip-hop and jazz. ~ Elle Fanning
Jazz Musician quotes by Elle Fanning
I've had the pleasure of hearing The Novelists perform live. They are gifted songwriters and talented musicians with strong lead voices. This is a band with lots of heart & soul. ~ Daryl Stuermer
Jazz Musician quotes by Daryl Stuermer
Irwin Silber, the editor of the folk magazine Sing Out! was there, too. In a few years' time he would castigate me publicly in his magazine for turning my back on the folk community. It was an angry letter. I liked Irwin, but I couldn't relate to it. Miles Davis would be accused of something similar when he made the album Bitches Brew, a piece of music that didn't follow the rules of modern jazz, which had been on the verge of breaking into the popular marketplace, until Miles's record came along and killed its chances. Miles was put down by the jazz community. I couldn't imagine Miles being too upset. ~ Bob Dylan
Jazz Musician quotes by Bob Dylan
For me it's the high-water mark of American culture - not so much contemporary jazz, which has become kind of academic, but the jazz from the '20s on through the '70s. ~ Flea
Jazz Musician quotes by Flea
Perhaps we were, all of us -pimps, whores, racketeers, church members, and children -bound together by the nature of our oppression, the specific and peculiar complex of risks we had to run; if so, within these limits we sometimes achieved with each other a freedom that was close to love. I remember, anyway, church suppers and outing, and later, after I left the church, rent and waistline parties where rage and sorrow sat in the darkness and did not stir, and we ate and drank and talked and laughed and danced and forgot all about "the man." We had the liquor, we had the chicken, the music, and each other, and had no need to pretend to be what we were not, This is the freedom that one hears in some gospel songs, for example, and in jazz. ~ James Baldwin
Jazz Musician quotes by James Baldwin
I'm not a corny-ass booty freak! I'm the greatest musician of all-time. ~ Kanye West
Jazz Musician quotes by Kanye West
I feel very honored to be playing with Bill Pierce. He's such a great musician. ~ Kevin Eubanks
Jazz Musician quotes by Kevin Eubanks
If it weren't for the Beatles, I would not be a musician. ~ Dave Grohl
Jazz Musician quotes by Dave Grohl
Being a musician, being a person who's playing tours and making records is a part-time thing for me at age. I did it, I lived it and I breathed it every day of my life for 30-odd years and now I am slowing down a little bit. But it does not mean that I am any less intense and dedicated to the work that I am doing now. I have other priorities in life as well. ~ David Gilmour
Jazz Musician quotes by David Gilmour
Some people look like they sound better than they actually sound, because they look confident and have good posture," once musician, a veteran of many auditions, says. "Other people look awful when they play but sound great. Other people have that belabored look when they play, but you can't hear it in the sound. There is always this dissonance between what you see and hear" (p.251). ~ Malcolm Gladwell
Jazz Musician quotes by Malcolm Gladwell
In jazz, as in poetry, there is always that play between what's regular and what's wild. That has always appealed to me. ~ Robert Pinsky
Jazz Musician quotes by Robert Pinsky
I'd rather play jazz, I hate rock and roll. ~ Ginger Baker
Jazz Musician quotes by Ginger Baker
I don't want to sound as if I'm doing something tremendously special. But I am a jazz fan. ~ Norman Granz
Jazz Musician quotes by Norman Granz
It is evidently known, beyond contradiction, that New Orleans is the cradle of Jazz and I, myself, happened to be the creator in the year 1902. ~ Jelly Roll Morton
Jazz Musician quotes by Jelly Roll Morton
Jazz is one of the few things you can do in society and express yourself freely and creatively. ~ Mulgrew Miller
Jazz Musician quotes by Mulgrew Miller
What makes my approach special is that I do different things. I do jazz, blues, country music and so forth. I do them all, like a good utility man. ~ Ray Charles
Jazz Musician quotes by Ray Charles
I started to study the flute in 1951. The flute has been utilized by African-American musicians as far back as the early Twenties. If you take a look at some of the old pictures of Chick Webb, then you will see the flute right there on the bandstand among the woodwinds. ~ Yusef Lateef
Jazz Musician quotes by Yusef Lateef
If you're a musician and an artist, you don't just stop. ~ Siobhan Fahey
Jazz Musician quotes by Siobhan Fahey
Once a musician has enough ability to get into a top music school, the thing that distinguishes one performer from another is how hard he or she works. That's it. And what's more, the people at the very top don't work just harder or even much harder than everyone else. They work much, much harder. ~ Malcolm Gladwell
Jazz Musician quotes by Malcolm Gladwell
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