Nat Wolff Quotes

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

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 got my love of jazz from my stepfather, who was a jazz musician.

I think that one of the problems that jazz has is that it's so incestuous that it's starting to kill itself.

It's a mystery to me why everybody doesn't love jazz. I've never been able to figure that out.

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

I always say that the problem with jazz accessibility is not the content of the music, it's people's ability to access it.

I believe deeply that jazz is still a very vital music that has much to say, not just to eggheads, or whatever the musical equivalent of an egghead is, but to ordinary people.

The people in Japan know more about the history of jazz and the musicians than the people in the United States do.

Jazz is not the popular culture. Jazz is in the same position in our culture as classical music. A very small minority of people really love it.

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.

When I began listening to saxophones, I was first attracted to Coleman Hawkins.

If he's a true symphony artist, he knows better than that because he knows that the only truly creative musician is the jazz musician.

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

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

I never studied jazz technically; I just know and love the music.

I don't want to sound as if I'm doing something tremendously special. But I am a jazz fan.

As a kid, I used to go see all the jazz players, Oscar Peterson, Stan Kenton, Dave Brubeck, Dizzy Gillespe.

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.

Part of what I like to do with Brainfeeder is to get the younger kids hearing jazz, because they don't know where to go to really hear it. Brainfeeder gives me a platform to put out people like Kamasi Washington or Austin Peralta.

Jazz musicians, in a way, are nerds. We are so in our world.

When I started music, I started out in Puerto Rico with classical music. But what really made me want to be a musician was jazz, and because I didn't grow up with jazz, I had to learn it from a very basic level. I had to go into the history and learn everything about the development of the music, all the players and all that stuff.

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.

I think jazz is the foundation for a lot of great musicians, and then after that, you know, it's this broad expression of things that really have influenced and addressed your life.