I always liked jazz. And my people liked the old blues, race records and the doo-wop and all that. – Amiri Baraka
In the Bay Area, there was a resurgence of Dixieland jazz in the ’40s – there was the Frisco Jazz Band, and Lu Watters and the Yerba Buena Jazz Band. – Clint Eastwood
That’s kind of like how jazz is sometimes. You’re out there predicting the future, and no one believes you. – Branford Marsalis
I’ve been saying for almost 20 years that I need to do a jazz project and it ought to be either big band or I should do some jazz songs with a trio or quartet. – Al Jarreau
I flow between modern and traditional jazz, between samba and choro – all maybe in a week’s time. – Anat Cohen
It’s something that jazz has gotten away from, and it’s unfortunate. Players aren’t physical anymore. – Branford Marsalis
Coltrane came to New Orleans one day and he was talking about the jazz scene. And Coltrane mentions that the problem with jazz was that there were too few groups. – Branford Marsalis
If it comes out sounding like Dixieland jazz or classical or punk or rock or even slightly metal, that’s because that’s where I’m going to find inspiration. – Ben Harper
It’s also crazy how Shakespeare has that cadence, and it’s about locking into the jazz of the language, just like locking into the rhythm in N.W.A’s lyrics. – Corey Hawkins
I’m done with industrial. Seriously, my iPod collection at home has no industrial music on it; it’s strictly jazz, blues and country. – Al Jourgensen
Well I went to New Orleans to cover the jazz festival for Trio, it’s this new arts channel, it’s really great. – Amy Sedaris
A jazz tune, melody, or composition is usually based on either a traditional twelve-bar, eight-bar, or four-bar blues chorus or on the thirty-two-bar chorus of the American popular song. – Albert Murray
I’ve done all different kinds of genres – doo-wop, pop, funk, gospel, country, jazz, you name it. – Aaron Neville
I’m not saying that in order to be a great jazz musician you have to be a great classical pianist first. But I am saying that it makes things easier when you can get around the instrument, and you have some idea of how to approach the various hurdles. – Aaron Diehl
Coltrane would do what you’d get a Roland Pro Tools module to do but with a group of jazz musicians. – Colin Greenwood
I am not a jazz singer. I wouldn’t place myself on that footing. I wouldn’t even enter that arena. – Boz Scaggs
I studied classical music for a year. Then, I studied jazz for a year at the New School, and then I got kicked out. You had to go to your class, so I don’t know if that counts as studying. I didn’t study jazz. I was supposed to. – Andrew Wyatt
I want to expand jazz; I don’t want to keep the audience limited. I want to reach people who have never come to a jazz concert before. One way to do that is by making records that have a lot of different kinds of music on them. – Charlie Haden
Jazz vision is a wordless conversation between musical notes and visual expressions. – Barbara Januszkiewicz
It’s something that – jazz is one of the few things that you can go and listen to, I don’t care where you’re from, what you are, what background you come from – there’s something there for you. – Billy Higgins
That’s the exact concept behind the music: to take that kind of, I guess whatever you want to call it, jazz sensibility – but not have it be about solos. – Charlie Hunter
I find Indian music very funky. I mean it’s very soulful, with their own kind of blues. But it’s the only other school on the planet that develops improvisation to the high degree that you find in jazz music. So we have a lot of common ground. – Mahavishnu John McLaughlin
There is an apprenticeship system in jazz. You teach the young ones. So even if the musicians weren’t personally that likable, they felt an obligation to help the younger musicians. – Dave Van Ronk
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