Jazz Quotes - Page 32

• What was the competition? Well, I remember this Puerto Rican who came out in a short skirt and a gun.

  Sarah Vaughan

  Gun, Competition, Skirts

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• One never knows, do one?

  Fats Waller

  Knows

  StormyWeather (motion picture) (1943).Waller used this phrase as an actor in this film, but it was earlier a catchphrase in his singing performances.

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• So easy, when you know how.

  Fats Waller

  Easy, Fats, Know How

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• Grab your pig's feet, bread, and gin, there's plenty in the kitchen. I wonder what the poor people are eating tonight?

  Fats Waller

  Feet, Pigs, People

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• I was playing organ at a silent movie house at Harlem and they'd be showing some death scene on the screen. Likely as not, I'd grab a bottle and start swingin' out on 'Squeeze Me' or 'Royal Garden Blues'. The managers complained but, heck, they couldn't stop me!

  Fats Waller

  Garden, House, Royal

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• You could be my son. You even look like me a little bit... Say, who's your mother?

  Fats Waller

  Mother, Son, Littles

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• Lately, Ive been listening to some jazz albums. I love the new Pat Metheny album. John Coltrane. I still like good metal, though!

  Geezer Butler

  Listening, Albums, Metals

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• 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

  Play

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• Growing up, I was very much interested in jazz music.

  Jan Hammer

  Growing Up, Growing, Jazz Music

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• Certainly one of the more common experiences in the jazz field is discovering someone new. Improvising musicians are capable of being musical travelers, voyagers. We want to join in on whatever we hear. There is a freedom to wander the musical landscape.

  Gary Burton

  Musical, Common Experience, Fields

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• But if you listen to great piano players, both classical and jazz, theres a huge range of dynamics and colors and emotional expression thats possible with the instrument.

  Gary Burton

  Emotional, Player, Expression

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• I was totally into jazz in my teens.

  Andy Summers

  Teens

  "Andy Summer The Police Interview From Noise11.com Archives". Interview with Paul Cashmere, www.noise11.com. April 25, 2016.

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• 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

  Air, People, Musical

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• We all listened to a lot of recorded music, especially American jazz, modern jazz, and that's where our studies were and our inspiration came from.

  Evan Parker

  Inspiration, Study, Modern

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• It's true I've always been attracted to the jazz band in an orchestral way, rather than a band way.

  Gerry Mulligan

  Band, Way, Mulligans

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• Now, the instrumentation in the jazz band and the jazz dance band has gone through many evolutions. For instance, in the 'twenties the tradition was two or three saxophones

  Gerry Mulligan

  Two, Twenties, Three

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• Possibly, I should have been a jazz singer from the beginning.

  Rita Coolidge

  Should Have, Singers, Has Beens

  Interview with Donna Kimura, www.jazzreview.com. January 29, 2011.

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• I'd actually been making my living as an organist with bands since I was probably 15 or 16 years old, and then as a senior in high school I put together a jazz quintet called The Bobby Mack Jazz Quintet.

  Bobby McFerrin

  Senior, School, Years

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• I think the Flecktones are a mixture of acoustic and electronic music with a lot of roots in folk and bluegrass as well as funk and jazz.

  Bela Fleck

  Thinking, Roots, Mixtures

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• I started writing songs when I was 10. It was a natural way to express myself as a kid. It wasn't until I started listening to jazz, joined the choir and picked up a guitar that my little hobby became something far more serious.

  Kimbra

  Song, Writing, Kids

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• I use rock and jazz and blues rhythms because I love that music. I hope my poetry has a relationship with good-time rock'n roll.

  Adrian Mitchell

  Relationship, Rocks, Use

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• Sometimes you need to stand with your nose to the window and have a good look at jazz. And I've done that on many occasions.

  J. J. Johnson

  Needs, Looks, Noses

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• In jazz improv, there is no such thing as wrong notes, only notes that are better chosen and it's not about the note you play, it's about the note you play next.

  Larry Carlton

  Play, Next, Notes

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• The jazz musician's function is to feel.

  Lennie Tristano

  Musician, Function, Feels

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• Something special can happen late at night in a jazz club. As the crowd thins, the musicians intuitively sense that those few who have stayed, have stayed for a reason. A reciprocity of need and desire inspires the musicians to dig as deeply into their talent and souls as they are able. This mysterious and transformative confluence of events rarely happens in concert. It is the province of the nightclub.

  Patricia Barber

  Night, Inspire, Soul

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