Jazz Genre Quotes

Jazz is like a big secret club. The mainstream media doesn't pay any attention to it; it's, like, 1 percent of the music market - no one cares. Why? Because the majority of jazz is old.

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.

Kenny G is not real jazz. I don't even think Wynton Marsalis is real jazz. I don't think Harry Connick Jr. is real jazz. If there is such a thing as real jazz, The Lounge Lizards is real jazz, Henry Threadgill is real jazz, Bill Frisell is real jazz, you know?

I think Theodore Adorno was profoundly ignorant. I think even Adorno's fans think he was bad at understanding popular music. He thought it was all jazz.

You don't rehearse jazz to death to get the camera angles.

I'm concerned with trend. I don't know where jazz fans will come from 20 years from now.

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

Jazz was a bomb. That was also the low point of Mac sales. People had just written it off.

I love music, and a lot of it. Jazz is probably on the top with guys like Miles Davis. But I even enjoy music from the '60s and '70s.

Free form jazz means absolutely nothing to me. Because there are no boundaries.

Someday, I hope to do a jazz club tour.

My work has been marginalized as far as the jazz-business complex is concerned, or the contemporary-music complex.

Over time, I've loved jazz, Miles Davis and Chet Baker, then Janis and Jimi and Creedence, then classic rock.

I haven't a great jazz band, and I don't want one.

Jazz music by its very nature is just a conglomerate of a lot of different kinds of music.

I was considered as a jazz man rather than as a blues player. There were no blues players-you played one sort of jazz of another sort of jazz.

I fell in love with jazz when I was 12 years old from listening to Duke Ellington and hearing a lot of jazz in New York on the radio.

I would not describe myself as an avid jazz fan and I am not a jazz musician myself. However, that is not to say that jazz does not play a vital and important role in my life.

I prefer her [Nina Simone's] jazz period much more so than her folk period.

Of course my uncle was a giant, but my dad, in particular, had the house filled with these great Dixieland jazz stars, really the best of them: Henry Red Allen, Willie 'The Lion' Smith, Buster Bailey, Cutty Cutshall, Tyree Glenn, Zutty Singleton. These are all big names in the Dixieland world.

I wouldn't really call myself a Jazz singer I think it's offending to real Jazz singers to call me a Jazz singer.

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

I was in band all the way through high school, and I played in jazz competitions all across Iowa.

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

If I am playing any music at all it is jazz music.