Great Jazz Musician Quotes

#1. If you're making money people don't think you're playing Jazz. When you're not making money they think you're a great Jazz musician.

Pete Fountain

#2. I always had a great appreciation for jazz, but I'm a very pedestrian musician. I get by. I like to think that my main instrument is vocabulary.

Tom Waits

#3. I think that America is such an incredibly dynamic place because of immigration. We fundamentally have been a culture that's been put together from the explosions of other cultures. But it's hard for us to see. We have blinded ourselves to the reality of what our country is.

Junot Diaz

#4. My goal was to play drums, but my father made me take piano lessons. He told me I needed to learn to read music first, so I took lessons for six years. I thank God that he made me take those lessons, because it taught me a tremendous amount.

Brian Austin Green

#5. What separates great jazz musicians from average ones is Taste. Those who have taste consistently choose notes, tempos, timbres and voicings that seduce and satisfy attentive listeners.

Marc Myers

#6. I want them to come away with discovering the music inside them. And not thinking about themselves as jazz musicians, but thinking about themselves as good human beings, striving to be a great person and maybe they'll become a great musician.

Charlie Haden

#7. Satan rejected my soul; as low as he goes,
he never quite goes this low.

Morrissey

#8. In my view a jazz musician is a great musician.

Michael Parkinson

#9. If the Chinese commit cyberwarfare against us, they are going to see cyberwarfare like they have never seen before.

Chris Christie

#10. We're going to die, aren't we?" I asked bitterly.
He held me so tight I could hardly breathe. But I wanted tighter still. "Not here. I swear it.

Megan Shepherd

#11. Both Averill and Bayar were like actors speaking lines for their audience and not to each other.

Cinda Williams Chima

#12. Grace Kelly plays with intelligence, wit and feeling. She has a great amount of natural ability and the ability to adapt. That is the hallmark of a first-class jazz musician.

Wynton Marsalis

#13. They are afraid of educated women. They are afraid of the power of knowledge.

Malala Yousafzai

#14. There's a lot of active radical thought today but not much action.

Lynne Stewart

#15. My personality has not once altered under outside influence." "Then I'm genuinely appalled, and your childhood nannies have my intense sympathy. You've got a bit of a nerve, don't you think, accusing other people of vanity? You make Mr. Darcy look like the poster child for low self-esteem.

Lucy Parker