Duke Ellington Quotes

The first time I listened to jazz was when I was 8.

Everybody in all countries tries to play jazz.

Jazz is an art that takes decades to appreciate and understand.

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.

As long as there are people trying to play music in a sincere way, there will be some jazz.

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 was 12, I began listening to John Coltrane and I developed a love for jazz, which I still have more and more each year.

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

My dad is a big jazz fan, and that was the reason I first got into jazz.

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.

I was exposed to jazz early on.

Jazz is a constant theme in my life. My father is a jazz pianist, and from an early age I have been surrounded by it.

Jazz is the last refuge of the untalented. Jazz musicians enjoy themselves more than anyone listening to them does.

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

Jazz has provided the framework for all the other stuff that I've done.

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.

Coltrane came to New Orleans one day and he was talking about the jazz scene. And Coltrane mentions that the problem with jazz was that there were too few groups.

I'm not a big jazz fan.

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 think everybody has to kind of decide what the word 'jazz' means to them, and that's fine.

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

I was totally into jazz in my teens.