Jazz was my first love.

It is also jazz mass. It is in jazz idiom. There are definitely some Latin-based pieces.

In my view a jazz musician is a great musician.

I’m not a big jazz fan.

Some so-called ‘jazz purists’ are critical of me using strings instead of just a trio, and I say to that, ‘HA! Who cares?’

History doesn’t start with a tall buildingand a card with your name written on it, but jokes do. I think someone is takingus for suckers and is playing a mean game.

My music isn’t anything but me. It has jazz in it, and rock’n’roll, and it has an urgency to it.

Jazz is the art of thinking out loud.

My style is a little quirky. I can’t play as fast as most professional jazz players.

As far as I’m concerned, the essentials of jazz are: melodic improvisation, melodic invention, swing, and instrumental personality.

Crisi Esistenziale” – (Testo e Musica : Savio De Martino)CHI SONO IO PER SENTIRMI UN DIO,E CHI SEI TU PER DECIDERE,CHI SIAMO NOI NON LO SAPREMO MAI,MA CERTO STA’ CHE NON SIAMO EROI,IL MONDO VA’...

I wanna show that gospel, country, blues, rhythm and blues, jazz, rock ‘n’ roll are all just really one thing. Those are the American music and that is the American culture.

In his book Real Presences, George Steiner asks us to “imagine a society in which all talk about the arts, music and literature is prohibited.” In such a society there would be no more essays...

Those who have not lived in New Orleans have missed an incredible, glorious, vital city–a place with an energy unlike anywhere else in the world, a majority-African American city where resistance to white supremacy has...

He was listening to a lot of jazz and a lot of horn players. He was just real open with his playing and went places musically that other musicians weren’t going. He would break out...

Poetry, like jazz, is one of those dazzling diamonds of creative industry that help human beings make sense out of the comedies and tragedies that contextualize our lives.

To be a jazz freedom fighter is to attempt to galvanize and energize world-weary people into forms of organization with accountable leadership that promote critical exchange and broad reflection. The interplay of individuality and unity...

—if the spirit tries to hide, its temple far away… acopper for those they ask, a diamond for those who stay.

Jazz was born in New Orleans, and it’s a tribute to Woody’s love of jazz that he will perform this benefit.

Jazz vision is a wordless conversation between musical notes and visual expressions.

I do find modern jazz quite tricky.

My main influences have always been the classic jazz players who sang, like Louis Armstrong and Nat King Cole and Jack Teagarden.

Risk is at the heart of jazz. Every note we play is a risk.

I do after-school ballet and also hip-hop and jazz.

There are editing procedures for talks just as there are editing procedures in jazz improvisation.

Well, I think writing is basically about time and rhythm. Like with jazz. You have your basic melody and then you just riff off of it. And the riffs are about timing.

The law don’t like jazz clubs. No one wants anything to do with that kind of trouble.

There are only two things: love, all sorts of love, with pretty girls, and the music of New Orleans or Duke Ellington. Everything else ought to go, because everything else is ugly.

Jazz presumes that it would be nice if the four of us–simpatico dudes that we are–while playing this complicated song together, might somehow be free and autonomous as well. Tragically, this never quite works out....

I steal one glance over my shoulder as soon as we are far from the foreboding luminance of the neon glow, and it is there that my stomach leaps into my throat. Squatting just shy...

I never liked blues and I really didn’t like jazz. I liked Chuck Berry.

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...

I like to listen to classical music… I like mainline jazz.

The jazz boom was goin’ on then so there was a lot happenin’ in New York at that time.

Jazz is people’s music, a collectivity.

And more than anything, I like the improvisation of jazz. That’s the same thing with DJ-ing. There’s so much improvisation you can do with cuttin’ and scratchin’ that’s reminiscent of jazz music, because it’s all...

There’s something beautifully friendly and elevating about a bunch of guys playing music together. This wonderful little world that is unassailable. It’s really teamwork, one guy supporting the others, and it’s all for one purpose,...

Gospel music rhythms are not African in origin, although I know that’s what the jazz experts say.

Brother Jimmy, said Joey the Lips. – I’m worried. – About Dean. – Wha’ abou’ Dean? – He told me he’s been listening to jazz. – What’s wrong with tha’? Jimmy wanted to know. –...

Sans le jazz, la vie serait une erreur

If my name were Nubby Blues, I wouldn’t be a jazz musician, I’d be a disabled Vietnam vet on welfare.

I rouse Emily to our guests, as she finishes off our fifteenth snowman by setting the head atop its torso. She stands limp at my direction, pointing out the coming shadows and I cannot help...

Are you kidding? That’s the music of the spheres, commissar. It’s beautiful. Like old jazz.

Now listen for your song. Everybody’s got a song. When I used to chase the Trane— John Coltrane that is— he used to tell me, ‘If I know a man’s sound, I know the man.’...

Some people think I’m a rock ‘n’ roll musician and some think I’m a jazz musician but, for me, there is no difference.

All the classic jazz players all sang and a lot of ’em sang blues.

The rest of y’all are lost because you don’t have a personal relationship with God—our God.” But art engages you in the world, not just the world around you but the big world, and not...

Kelsey plays the piano, and he’s also a tremendous singer. I’m classically trained, and he’s more of a jazz improvisatory pianist. So, we don’t usually sit down and play together.

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

One thing about playing the real jazz is that you can’t count it.