Amy Winehouse Quotes

The only element of jazz that I keep is improvisation.

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

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

Jazz was more of a tool for me to use to enhance my musicality.

In my view a jazz musician is a great musician.

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.

Bill Evans is a real serious jazz pianist who, in my book, crossed over boundaries in terms of color. He used the piano as his canvas.

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.

If I'm going to be a jazz player, I need to understand Miles Davis.

I think I was supposed to play jazz.

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.

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

I always leaned toward free jazz... experimental jazz and progressive jazz. I feel like jazz is just part of the flavor and palette that you have as a musician to experiment with.

I wanted to be a jazz musician.

My favorite music is jazz, actually. It's what I listen to, it's what I was raised on, and it's what I prefer to sing.

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

Truth be told, I think jazz is a mind-set. It's not necessarily, like, this guy picked up a horn and did this or whatever.

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

Everybody in all countries tries to play jazz.

It is rare that even a jazz musician finds an individual voice.

I put out a recording of me singing mostly jazz because I wanted people to know I'm coming from a jazz background.

I was a jazz major in high school, in an all-jazz band. No matter what I do, it features my musical influences.

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.