Quotes About Smooth Jazz

#1. People are always defining and re-defining music. My style of playing has been characterized as smooth jazz and acid jazz. I listen as I play; I'm not caught up in defining the type of music I play.

Roy Ayers

#2. The whole rise of new adult contemporary music and smooth jazz was a nice surprise.

Kenny G

#3. Whoever invented smooth jazz, man, I wanna kill 'em: You're turning an art form into a hooker.

Phil Woods

#4. Well, I guess my unease with that is ... I'm always a little uneasy with that phrase - smooth jazz, as opposed to what?

David Sanborn

#5. The No. 1 best-selling Christmas album of all time is from Kenneth Bruce Gorelick, the Jewish smooth-jazz legend Kenny G. American Jews have always produced a lot of holiday music, just not Hanukkah music.

Matisyahu

#6. I couldn't get my album played over the so-called smooth jazz stations. Jazz stations would not play it. You don't always know who you're making that soul connection with.

Roy Ayers

#7. She was cool -
the whole world
seemed
to spin around her
in smooth jazz.

Atticus Poetry

#8. I put on some smooth jazz and change into a smooth silk lungi.

Sidin Vadukut

#9. Say That! is an iron fist upside the mushy head of smooth jazz, and Grant Geissman's defiant declaration of independence.

Bill Milkowski

#10. Jazz music should be inclusive. Smooth jazz to me rules out a certain kind of drama and a certain tension that I think all music needs. Especially jazz music, since improvising is one of the cornerstones of what jazz is. And when you smooth it out, you take all the drama out of it.

David Sanborn

#11. Dinner 'conversation' at the Cohens' meant my sister, mom, and I relaying in brutal detail the day's events in a state of amplified hysteria, while my father listened to his own smooth jazz station in his head.

Andy Cohen

#12. My other friends are in music relaxation class, which I do not attend, because smooth jazz makes me angry sometimes.

Matthew Quick

#13. I definitely use 'smiling while rapping' as a tool in the booth. I want to have fun while recording.

Macklemore

#14. I'm a Virgo; it's in my sign to be hard on myself.

Keanu Reeves

#15. People in love, in whom every sense is open, cannot beat off the influence of a place.

Elizabeth Bowen

#16. I didn't finish the stories until we went to the Philippines and I got malaria. I couldn't work and I didn't have any money, but I had seven stories. So I wrote three or four more.

Denis Johnson

#17. Jazz is smooth and cool. Jazz is rage. Jazz flows like water. Jazz never seems to begin or end. Jazz isn't methodical, but jazz isn't messy either. Jazz is a conversation, a give and take. Jazz is the connection and communication between musicians. Jazz is abandon.

Nat Wolff

#18. Every woman thinks herself attractive; even the plainest is satisfied with the charms she deems that she possesses.

Ovid

#19. I could see sunlight making exquisite patterns on the water's surface above me. Everything seemed fascinating and very slow. All around me lionfish darted like golden suns and moons in an alchemists's dream. I looked down to where a vast labyrinth of black seaweed awaited me.

Nick Bantock