Rebecca Ferguson Quotes

What I love about jazz is the improvisation, the fact that you never know what's going to happen next.

For me, jazz offers so much freedom in the way the music can be interpreted. It's natural to me. It's where I feel most free.

The point of jazz is, you do something and then you go on.

I think that's what I love about jazz is that you can do what you want, and you're allowed to mess up.

Jazz is about freedom within discipline.

That's the thing about jazz: it's free flowing, it comes from your soul.

Jazz stands for freedom. It's supposed to be the voice of freedom: Get out there and improvise, and take chances, and don't be a perfectionist - leave that to the classical musicians.

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.

When you're playing jazz, you have to somehow overcome that feeling of being intimidated because your aim is to portray that freedom in what you're playing.

It's not easy to play in a framework that requires simplicity and to tastefully find ways to interject the kind of freedom that we have in playing jazz.

This is what really makes real jazz musicians: people coming out with their own voice.

One doesn't have to scat to be a jazz singer.

Jazz to me is the spirit of freedom. I mean real freedom. Freedom to explore. Freedom to express. Freedom to pour out your guts.

Jazz is a good barometer of freedom.

Jazz is letting everybody do his or her thing with the music.

The spirit of jazz is the spirit of openness.

Maybe a part of me recognized how right the improvising spirit of jazz is. Not the sounds, but the freedom to work with musicians who work that way. It felt very natural to me, but I think there's a way to do it without it being a jazz record.

I've always done very 'composed' music and worked-out solos. But sometimes it's fun not knowing where you're going.

I'm comfortable singing jazz. The only thing I was concerned about is that everybody, even in jazz, has their own style. To me, the queen of doodling was Ella Fitzgerald, and scatting is something I never thought I could do.

Jazz is all about improvisation and it's about the moment in time, doing it this way now, and you'll never do it this way twice. I've studied the masters. Why would I want to play ball after the guys who sit on a bench? I want to play like Michael Jordan.

The most common misconception about me is that I'm basically a jazz singer.

I don't put boundaries on myself when I sit at the piano.

No one in the world can beat Ella Fitzgerald as a riff singer.

Music needs room to breathe.

Panic! at the Disco, for me, has been an outlet to do whatever. I never felt like there were any rules. It was always carte blanche. I could do whatever I wanted. There were no rules set yet for the band. It just felt right.