Mark Ronson Quotes

I'm a jazz musician, and I really wanted to not miss an opportunity to have the full connection to jazz.

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.

I have to plead basic ignorance of most new jazz artists here.

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.

I knew even if I'm a cowboy, I'm going to be involved in jazz in some way.

I started in New Orleans music and played all through the history of jazz.

The only element of jazz that I keep is improvisation.

My father is a jazz musician, so I grew up hearing jazz. My parents loved it, but I didn't like it. It went on for too long. Yes, I had certain teachers that really inspired me, like Danny Barker, and John Longo. And I had no idea that I would have any impact on 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.

Jazz is not the kind of music you are going to learn to play in three or four years or that you can just get because you have some talent for music.

I think jazz is a wonderful learning tool.

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

I don't worry too much about the fundamentalist principles that are in almost any discussion about jazz.

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.

At a certain point, I became a kind of musician that has tunnel vision about jazz. I only listened to jazz and classical music.

We don't live in a jazz world, unfortunately. I think if I had lived in a jazz world, I would have done OK. I'm not sure I would have done great. I'm a lover of jazz music, so I would have been happy, don't get me wrong. I go to jazz concerts like the biggest jazz fan in world. The drag is that I don't play jazz for a living.

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

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

I wanted to be a jazz musician.

I'm thrilled when I hear the greatest jazz musicians. They continue to search in ways other musicians do not.

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

Yeah, I grew up playing lots of jazz music in school.

We all know that jazz demands a cultivation of the mind.

The people at Jazz at Lincoln Center are an amazing group and have done a phenomenal job teaching kids and audiences of all ages about jazz.