Nat Wolff Quotes

My dad is a big jazz fan, and that was the reason I first got into 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've met a lot of jazz musicians in my day, and they're all funny.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Sometimes you need to stand with your nose to the window and have a good look at jazz. And I've done that on many occasions.

Jazz is a way of life, and you have to learn about it on the street, so to speak. But the training comes in by giving you the tools to work with.

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.

Everybody in all countries tries to play jazz.

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

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.

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

I have always been a person who is concerned with the dignity of jazz music and the way jazz musicians have been treated and are treated, and the fact that the music has not been given the kind of due that it deserves.

So much of what I create has been due to the influence of Miles Davis and Donald Byrd, and so many of those that have passed on. Their music, their legacy lives on with the rest of us because we are so highly influenced by their experience and what they have given us.

By and large, jazz has always been like the kind of a man you wouldn't want your daughter to associate with.

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

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

The only element of jazz that I keep is improvisation.