Jazz  Quotes

• Diana Krall - "I'm not really on a mission to tell anybody anything. I'd rather be figured out."
• Diana Krall - "What we do as artists is a combination of experience & imagination. How that creeps into your work is not so linear."
• Diana Krall - "I've sung a lot of emotional songs, but when you're writing it's very difficult to decide what to reveal."
• Diana Krall - "I work very hard at being the best musician I can be because I love it."
• Diana Krall - "You want the listener to find the song on their own, give too much away & it takes away from the imagination."
• Diana Krall - "The greatest thing about music is putting it out there for people to figure out."
• Diana Krall - "Love songs last because they are about feelings that don't change."
• Steve Lacy - "Risk is at the heart of Jazz. Every note we play is a risk."
• Steve Lacy - "I started in New Orleans music & played all through the history of Jazz."
• Steve Lacy - "I fell in love with Jazz when I was 12 listening to Duke Ellington & hearing a lot of Jazz in New York on the radio."
• Steve Lacy - "I still love the whole history of Jazz. The old things sound better than ever."
• Steve Lacy - "There's a lot of recreational Jazz going on, where cats learn a particular style & become sharks on somebody else's language."
• Steve Lacy - "Jazz musician is a combination entertainer, poet, singer, educator, student, artist, seducer & all-round good fellow."
• Steve Lacy - "Jazz is like wine. When it is new it's only for the experts, but when it gets older everybody wants it."
• Steve Lacy - "In composition you have all the time you want to decide what to say in 15 seconds, in improvisation you have 15 seconds."
• Yusef Lateef - "My music is Jazz."
• Peggy Lee - "What are you going to do when you love music? You can't stop."
• Michel Legrand - "To play piano is a significant part of my life, my existence. It fulfills a very physical & spiritual need for me."
• John Lennon - "Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it."
• Annie Lennox - "When you're successful, things have a momentum & you can't tell if you have created the momentum or it's creating you."
• Annie Lennox - "Music is an extraordinary vehicle for expressing very powerful emotions. That's what draws people towards it."
• Dave Liebman - "Art is constant tension & release. That is where artists live, between the two or at times, submerged in either."
• Dave Liebman - "A Jazz performance centers upon the process of creation. The final objective is not only the finished product, but the path & process taken towards it."
• Abbey Lincoln - "I loved Billie Holiday more than any other person other than myself on the stage."
• Abbey Lincoln - "I don't have to lay on the couch & see a therapist because my therapy is in art."
• Booker Little - "Jazz stresses less on technical exhibitionism & much more on emotional content."
• Joe Lovano - "You explore beautiful songs & create your own interpretation of them."
• Russell Malone - "You're just a little too hip for the room. It's not good to be too hip because two hips make an ass."
• Chuck Mangione - "I don't believe music can be free unless it has something to be free from."
• Chuck Mangione - "I can count on one hand the number of instrumental hits there have been over the last 10 years."
• Herbie Mann - "You don't have to live the blues to play the blues."
• Herbie Mann - "Music allows the great opportunity to play with people you love."
• Herbie Mann - "If you want to play somebody's music, you'd better go into his house."
• Herbie Mann - "If you keep your head in the sand, you don't know where the kick's coming from."
• Pat Martino - "Jazz is the continual pulsation of the now."
• Branford Marsalis - "Jazz is so incestuous that it's starting to kill itself."
• Branford Marsalis - "Jazz fans love Miles & I love him for a myriad of reasons, but the overviews are always too simplistic."
• Branford Marsalis - "Pop doesn't really look back. It can't. What makes pop work is simplicity."
• Branford Marsalis - "You don't know what you like, you like what you know. In order to know what you like, you have to know everything."
• Branford Marsalis - "We quest for the perfect performance & every note has to be right. Man, every note is not right in life."
• Wynton Marsalis - "Jazz music is the power of now."
• Wynton Marsalis - "A beat is a moment in the life a groove."
• Wynton Marsalis - "Nothing else will ever capture the democratic process in sound as perfectly as Jazz."
• Wynton Marsalis - "Music does not come to you. You have to come to it & you'll walk away with something you didn't have before."
• Wynton Marsalis - "Find the best teachers, listen to the finest playing & try to emulate that. Be true to the music."
• Wynton Marsalis - "Jazz isn't the kind of music you're going to learn in 3 or 4 years or get because you have talent for music."
• Wynton Marsalis - "Don't settle for style. Succeed in substance."
• Wynton Marsalis - "I wanted to make somebody feel like Coltrane made me feel."