SZA Quotes

I listen to jazz mainly. Mainstream jazz.

I'm a great jazz fan.

I have a secret love of jazz.

I listen to a lot of jazz. I'm a big Sinatra geek. I love Chet Baker.

As I've gotten older, my love for jazz has increased.

I've never listened to jazz. It's just not something I ever paid attention to.

I'm not a big jazz fan.

I grew up around jazz. I love jazz.

I love, you know, a lot of jazz, John Coltrane.

I don't like to hear someone put down dixieland. Those people who say there's no music but bop are just stupid; it shows how much they don't know.

As late as the early '50s, jazz was still, for the most part, a genuinely popular music, a utilitarian, song-based idiom to which ordinary people could dance if they felt like it.

Coltrane came to New Orleans one day and he was talking about the jazz scene. And Coltrane mentions that the problem with jazz was that there were too few groups.

After I exhausted the blues thing, I got into jazz.

But I don't really listen to much be-bop at all at the moment.

I was totally into jazz in my teens.

Most of what I listen to now is mainstream jazz from 1935 right up to and including early bebop and cool jazz.

I still love the whole history of jazz. The old things sound better than ever.

I've been a massive obsessive about jazz singers all my life.

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

And I used to listen to a lot of jazz.

My favorite music is jazz, actually. It's what I listen to, it's what I was raised on, and it's what I prefer to sing.

My father was a huge jazz fan, so I remember him playing Duke Ellington, Sarah Vaughn, and Count Basie.

I've always gravitated toward technical music in general. I love jazz fusion.

Jazz musicians are the coolest people on the planet. Can I have some cool?

I don't know how much more what I've done is any more important than what Ella Fitzgerald did. Ella crossed those lines, as did George Benson before me. There've been lots of people who brought a pop audience to jazz because they were able to link the two and give people easy access to the world of jazz.