Jose James Quotes

I have tons of jazz records: John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis. I could go on and on.

I listen to jazz mainly. Mainstream jazz.

I didn't grow up during the time that Louis Armstrong or Miles Davis and all those people were playing. So it's not really my responsibility to keep it up, what they were doing.

I heard Sidney Bechet play a Duke Ellington piece and fell in love with the soprano saxophone.

I've met a lot of jazz musicians in my day, and they're all funny.

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

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

If I'm going to be a jazz player, I need to understand Miles Davis.

I grew up around jazz. I love jazz.

I have a large collection of biographies about jazz musicians.

I listened to classical music. I listened to jazz. I listened to everything. And I started becoming interested in the sounds of jazz. And I went to a concert of Jazz at the Philharmonic when we lived in Omaha, Nebraska, and I saw Charlie Parker play and Billie Holiday sing and Lester Young play, and that did it. I said, 'That's what I want to do.'

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

I just don't know anything about jazz, really. I've never really listened to it, but I'd definitely like to discover more about it.

The first thing is, jazz is one of the few things to let you know that there is a God and there is a creation.

When I began listening to saxophones, I was first attracted to Coleman Hawkins.

I have a fondness for jazz, particularly for jazz singers, Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald all the way through the Sinatra era.

Sometimes you need to stand with your nose to the window and have a good look at jazz. And I've done that on many occasions.

I didn't know what the hell Charlie Parker was playing... I just liked the way he played.

And I used to listen to a lot of jazz.

Charlie Parker is my greatest inspiration as a saxophone player - anything that involves him entails a large amount of respect.

Everybody in all countries tries to play jazz.

If you don't already know about jazz music, how would you be exposed? How would get an opportunity to find out if it spoke to you? If you get exposed to it enough, you might find a taste for it.

I have to plead basic ignorance of most new jazz artists here.

I think Wes Montgomery is the greatest jazz guitarist that ever lived.

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