Jazz Quotes - Page 23

• I could do without 'cool' publications calling me 'mom jazz.' But I laughed all the way to the bank, baby.

  Norah Jones

  Mom, Baby, Calling

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• I'm really getting to appreciate traditional jazz now - the New Orleans stuff - a lot more than I did before.

  John Goodman

  New Orleans, Appreciate, Stuff

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• I'd rather call it "instrumental creative music," especially the music that I've been doing. If a person would hear that music, they would undoubtedly call it "jazz." There is this whole generation of musicians that are playing and thinking critically for themselves and making music that's relevant to today. I hope that's the objective of a lot of musicians.

  Eldar Djangirov

  Thinking, Creative, Musician

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• There's a category for me. I like to be referred to as a good singer of good songs in good taste.

  Sarah Vaughan

  Music, Song, African American

  "The Hollywood Reporter" Interview, 1974.

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• Jazz is like a great blues band that fell down the stairs

  Michael Buble

  Band, Stairs

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• Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous, you don't want it.

  Duke Ellington

  Art, Want, Danger

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• I don't need time. What I need is a deadline!

  Duke Ellington

  Inspirational, Needs, Deadline

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

  Cassandra Wilson

  Music, Singers, Heard

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• I was never interested in singing in the church or school. I was more interested in becoming a musician.

  Cassandra Wilson

  Music, School, Church Choir

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• Never lose the groove to find a note.

  Victor Wooten

  Music, Notes, Groove

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• Jazz musicians have some outlaw in them somewhere.

  Mike Zwerin

  Music, Outlaw, Musician

  1985 La Tristesse de Saint Louis: Swing Under the Nazis, ch.4.

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• Art is self expression. If you are expressing someone else's personality, that is not art.

  Bennie Wallace

  Music, Art, Self

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• "Music, for me, has always been a place where anything is possible--a refuge, a magical world where anyone can go, where all kinds of people can come together, and anything can happen. We are limited only by our imaginations.

  Bill Frisell

  Music, Imagination, People

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• That sound in tune to you?.. Sounds sharp to me. Sounds like I'm playing sharp all the time. My singing teacher told us you should do that. Maybe I got it from her. She said singers when they grow old have a tendency to go flat. So if you sing sharp as a young person, as you get older and go flat, you'll be in tune. In other words, it's never thought good to be flat. It means you can't get to the tone.

  Charles Mingus

  Teacher, Mean, Singing

  "Mingus/Mingus: Two Memoirs". Book by Janet Coleman and Al Youn, 1989.

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• Count Basie was college, but Duke Ellington was graduate school.

  Clark Terry

  Music, School, College

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• Imitate, assimilate, and innovate.

  Clark Terry

  Music, Musical

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• You may have holes in your shoes, but don't let the people out front know it. Shine the tops.

  Earl Hines

  Music, Shoes, People

  Stanley Dance, Earl Hines (1983). “The World of Earl Hines”

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• Jazz is improvisation and syncopation, with resilience and flow, with earthy elegance, nuance and subtlety, with the integrity of individual expression within (usually) a group context, with true democracy in action.

  Greg Thomas

  Music, Integrity, Expression

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• I think that a musician is like a doctor, he's supposed to heal people and make them feel better.

  Steve Turre

  Music, Feel Better, Thinking

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• When I was young and very green, I worte that tune, Sister Kate, and someone said that's fine, let me publish it for you. I'll give you fifty dollars. I didn't know nothing about papers, and business, and I sold it outright.

  Louis Armstrong

  Giving, Tunes, Dollars

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• You see, pops, that's the kind of talk that's ruining the music. Everyone's trying to do something new, no one trying to learn the fundamentals first. All them young cats playing their wierd chords. And what happens? No one's working.

  Louis Armstrong

  Cat, Trying, Fundamentals

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• I progressed through so many different styles of music through my teen years, both as a player and a vocalist, particularly the jazz and pop of the early 20th Century.

  Jeff Healey

  Player, Years, Style

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• I've been invited to do a trio with a fantastic jazz guitarist and a harmonica player

  Karen Black

  Player, Guitar, Trios

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• I love music. My secret dream has always been to be a jazz musician. I tried the saxophone for a year or two when I was younger, but unfortunately I had to face the fact that I was not really talented !

  Gaspard Ulliel

  Dream, Years, Two

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• I love good rock'n'roll, blues and jazz, gospel, and a little reggae.

  Jerry Hall

  Rocks, Littles, Rock N Roll

  "Jerry Hall turns 57! Looking back at her hottest fashions and fierce Texan one-liners" by Lucy Buckland, www.mirror.co.uk. July 02, 2013.

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