Dave Mustaine Quotes

In my view a jazz musician is a great musician.

In some ways, jazz is the most precise of art forms and the loosest in the sense that it's all about improvisation, but the musicianship required is kind of insane. To actually play with real jazz musicians is a different level of musicianship that almost has no equal in any other form of music in the world.

The only element of jazz that I keep is improvisation.

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

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

My foundation is jazz. I do all the things jazz musicians do.

Everybody in all countries tries to play jazz.

I listen to jazz about three hours a day. I love Louis Armstrong.

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

So our ears got used to listening to jazz in the place that it was that the bass player could not play. No one really realized it and really addressed it until the bass players who could play their instrument came along and started doing something with it.

Bernstein grew up in my building in New York. He's a very, very fine player. When he was a kid, he came by to find out what was going on in the world of jazz.

I think that people should learn about that. In most music, there's one way that you do something, and that's the only way. In jazz, it's a lot different.

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.

Jazz music creates so many phenomenal figures.

I think jazz is actually quite unforgiving in its disdain for nostalgia. It demands creativity and change at its highest level.

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?

Growing up, I was very much interested in jazz 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.

What I believe to be jazz is constructed and improvised music which is in the air right now. But I don't think that's most people's definition of jazz, you know? We don't know what we're talking about, because we don't know the definition.

One performer whose band played my music better than I could myself was Art Farmer. He recorded 'Sing Me Softly of the Blues' and 'Ad Infinitum'.

I've been around jazz and jazz musicians most of my life.

I would say that jazz is my own language.

So I went into jazz and performed in jazz clubs all over the country.

I always tell people that, just to be a bad jazz musician, you have to be better than most musicians. The worst jazz musicians are normally better than most musicians, because you have to know so much.

I loved Art Tatum! And, through him, and other different jazz musicians, I actually found my technique.