Quotes: Jazz

I also like Western classical music and jazz.

Humans are imperfect. That’s one of the reasons that classical and jazz are in trouble. We’re on the quest for the perfect performance and every note has to be right. Man, every note is not right in life.

Jazz is letting everybody do his or her thing with the music.

The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician.

My mother is a singer, still performs today; she’s a jazz singer.

Lately I’ve been listening to some classical music again, some jazz.

People have taken time out of their day and spent their money to come sit down at a concert. And it’s jazz music-it’s not easy for them to get to it. I don’t want them ever to feel that I’m taking their presence lightly.

Writing is like jazz. It can be learned, but it can’t be taught.

I was a jazz major in high school, in an all-jazz band. No matter what I do, it features my musical influences.

You need better technique than I have to play jazz, but what you have to do is the same thing, isn’t it?