Jazz Chords Quotes

One chord is fine. Two chords are pushing it. Three chords and you're into jazz.

My favourite chord? Bb6th with added 9th.

The way jazz works is that we take a theme, and then we write using the same structure, same chord changes, and then we can do different tunes.

I don't think I've ever been true to jazz. There's always a kind of jazz element to what I do. There are a very few genres that I haven't tried out, really, in what I've been doing. As a jazz musician, you can kind of mess about with things with a certain level of musicianship, which helps.

One thing about playing the real jazz is that you can't count it.

I've always been a jazz fan, but I don't write much about jazz, because I don't have the chops. But it's really, really hard to write about improvised instrumental music when you don't have a good knowledge of harmony and can't identify rhythm signatures very easily either.

Jazz scares me. I've witnessed so many incredible singers and jazz musicians. Pop and soul music have always been the things that I felt like I could do.

I'm comfortable singing jazz. The only thing I was concerned about is that everybody, even in jazz, has their own style. To me, the queen of doodling was Ella Fitzgerald, and scatting is something I never thought I could do.

Well, being a jazz musician is not a rose garden!

For some reason, the concept of writing with swing chords was intimidating.

By adding open strings to even the simplest chords, you can create voicings that sound sophisticated, but are really easy (and fun) to play. They're practical, not intimidating, and most certainly don't sound like 'jazz chords.'

I wouldn't call myself a jazz player or a blues player.

I think that's what I love about jazz is that you can do what you want, and you're allowed to mess up.

I just wanted to experiment with the bass, and my main influence from Jaco Pastorius inspired me to write music in a certain way.

Jazz is a hard music, and you have to really work hard and also have fun performing; that's the most important thing.

I don't know any jazz stuff. I don't know how to jam in that way. So jamming, for me, is writing a tune.

I love jazz and blues, where there's a structure, but a lot of the cool stuff is veering off the page and playing.

You have to go out and learn jazz by playing.

If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know.

It's always difficult to define what jazz is or what jazz isn't. To me, the only definition that I can think of is it's music where a lot of different elements are played at the same time. The harmonic, the melodic... You're pushing the boundaries on every level. That could be true of rhythm and blues as well. I'm a musician.

A jazz tune, melody, or composition is usually based on either a traditional twelve-bar, eight-bar, or four-bar blues chorus or on the thirty-two-bar chorus of the American popular song.