351 Quotes About Jazz

Jean-Luc is my violin jazz hero, ... So to have him come out and play that tune with us at Telluride was just a freakout.

If I had to look at 'Now He Sings'... from outside myself, I see it as a natural part of the growth of the jazz culture, which I've always been so happy - honored, really - to be a small part of.

Brubeck, for instance, is not careless. He's a studied guy. And even if his picture ends up on the back cover of Life, he's still a studious guy.

Paul Desmond sounds like a female alcoholic.

Krupa's drums went through us like a triple bourbon.

All a musician can do is to get closer to the sources of nature, and so feel that he is in communion with the natural laws.

I'm interested in music, not in my image. If someone plays something fantastic, that I could never have thought of, it makes me happy to know it exists.

It seems that jazz is more cerebral and more mathematical in a sense.

I've always loved jazz.