#jazz music

We always feel pretty creative as far as writing songs. We write them together; we just get in a room, or on occasion in Flea's garage. We just sort of improvise, like jazz musicians. ↗

— Chad Smith

#as far as #creative #far #feel #flea

I was always very leery of my piano playing. As a young kid, I wanted to be a jazz musician, but my taste was far greater than my ability. ↗

— Mike Stoller

#always #far #greater #i #jazz

The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician. ↗

— Louis Armstrong

#important #jazz #jazz musician #memory #musician

You know, it's funny... when you're making money, people don't think you're playing jazz. Now when you're not making money, people think that you're a good jazz musician. ↗

— Pete Fountain

#good #jazz #jazz musician #know #making

A jazz musician can improvise based on his knowledge of music. He understands how things go together. For a chef, once you have that basis, that's when cuisine is truly exciting. ↗

— Charlie Trotter

#basis #chef #cuisine #exciting #go

Jazz music is to be played sweet, soft, plenty rhythm. ↗

— Jelly Roll Morton

#jazz music #music #played #plenty #rhythm

I have seen great jazz musicians die obscure and drinking themselves to death and not really being able to get any work and working in small, funky jazz clubs. ↗

— Sonny Rollins

#any #being #clubs #death #die

What I can say is that for may years jazz musicians had to go to Europe, for instance, to be respected and to be sort of treated not in a discriminatory way. I don't think there is anything controversial about me saying that. This is just a fact. ↗

— Sonny Rollins

#anything #controversial #discriminatory #europe #fact

Blues and soul and jazz music has so much pain, so much beauty of raw emotion and passion. ↗

— Christina Aguilera

#blues #emotion #jazz #jazz music #much

I love jazz music and sad music. I'm a sentimental guy. I'm a romantic guy. ↗

— Fred Durst

#i #i love #jazz #jazz music #love