Jazz Quotes - Page 20

• Bill Monroe spoke of bringing 'ancient tones' into his music with echoes of British and Irish fiddle and bagpipe music, while also delving deeply into American blues, gospel, folk hymnody, and hill country dance music. To that gumbo, he added the invigorating rhythms and harmonies of hot jazz. It was a new kind of American music, named in honor of his band The Blue Grass Boys to be known, simply, as bluegrass.

  Paul Zollo

  Music, Country, Boys

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• I can only be me. I do what I do, I'm not a jazz player. ... I don't play jazz standards, at least not in any recognizable way. It's not my turf but I have plenty of respect for that style of playing.

  Jorma Kaukonen

  Music, Player, Style

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• When comedy is good, it's jazz. The beats of it, the looseness, the improvisational part, the music-the way you hit the inflection, the high notes of a joke. It's all melody to me.

  Billy Crystal

  Art, Way, Comedy

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• I guess I learnt to appreciate old Hindi-movie music from my dad and somewhere down the line picked up jazz as well.

  Deepika Padukone

  Dad, Appreciate, Lines

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Thinking, Knowing, Musician

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• Scott Feiner is a soulful magnet for the fusion of Brazilian and jazz music.

  Kurt Rosenwinkel

  Fusion, Magnet, Soulful

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• The one radio voice that I listened to above others belonged to Ella Fitzgerald. There was a quality to her voice that fascinated me, and I'd sing along with her, trying to catch the subtle ways she shaded her voice, the casual yet clean way she sang the words.

  Doris Day

  Voice, Trying, Quality

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• I've had some wonderful love affairs and some that didn't work out. I don't want to dwell on that and I don't want to put people down, but I think all the fabulous places I've been, the wonderful things that have happened for me, the great people I've met - that ought to make a story.

  Ella Fitzgerald

  Thinking, People, Work Out

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• I know I'm no glamour girl, and it's not easy for me to get up in front of a crowd of people. It used to bother me a lot, but now I've got it figured out that God gave me this talent to use, so I just stand there and sing.

  Ella Fitzgerald

  Music, Girl, People

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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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• Sometimes when I do a joke and it doesn't get a lot of laughs, it kind of feels like I'm doing jazz. That's kinda cool because jazz is cool, but sometimes jazz sucks ... Maybe I'm the Kenny G of comedy.

  Mike Birbiglia

  Funny, Humor, Laughing

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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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• I just think swing is a matter of some good things put together that you can really pat your foot by. I can't define it beyond that.

  Count Basie

  Thinking, Swings, Feet

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• At this point we've answered about every question you could possibly imagine about Deep Space Nine, so we do this thing called Theatrical Jazz, where we do a show of bits and pieces of things from plays and literature, poetry... stuff that we like. It's fun.

  Rene Auberjonois

  Fun, Play, Space

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Michael Buble

  Band, Stairs

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• I don't limit my taste. There's some jazz that I like and there's some opera. I've been listening to what was essentially country music, but it crossed over to rock.

  Rick Moranis

  Country, Rocks, Listening

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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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• The word [jazz] never lost its association with those New Orleans bordellos. In the 1920s I used to try to convince Fletcher Henderson that we ought to call what we were doing 'Negro music'. But it's too late for that now.

  Duke Ellington

  New Orleans, Trying, Too Late

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• I'm too busy playing. When I'm playing I don't pay attention to who's listening. When I was listening I listened to symphony orchestras, Beethoven, Bach, Brahms, Stravinsky. You don't listen to one instrument; you listen to music.

  Charles Mingus

  Symphony, Listening, Attention

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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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• If there's any such thing as a perfect man, I think John Coltrane was one. And I think that kind of perfection has to come from a greater force than there is here on earth.

  Elvin Jones

  Music, Men, 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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