Don Cheadle Quotes

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.

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.

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 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.

I'm not a big jazz fan.

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.

I still love the whole history of jazz. The old things sound better than ever.

Growing up, I was very much interested in jazz music.

I grew up around jazz. I love jazz.

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

We are serious about our music here in Philadelphia, and jazz has meant a lot to this city.

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

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

There are singers that I have enjoyed, from Nina Simone and Ray Charles onward. But the music that made music the number one thing for me as a youth was jazz.

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

As I've gotten older, my love for jazz has increased.

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.

I love, you know, a lot of jazz, John Coltrane.

My mum loves jazz, and together we listen to loads of Chet Baker back home.

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 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 missed jazz, kind of. And by the time I came to it in life, it was too intimidating to enjoy thoroughly.