Hiromi Uehara Quotes

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

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.

I was exposed to jazz early on.

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.

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.

Jazz is an art that takes decades to appreciate and understand.

When I was 12, I began listening to John Coltrane and I developed a love for jazz, which I still have more and more each year.

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.

Everybody in all countries tries to play jazz.

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

Coltrane came to New Orleans one day and he was talking about the jazz scene. And Coltrane mentions that the problem with jazz was that there were too few groups.

I listen to jazz mainly. Mainstream jazz.

After I exhausted the blues thing, I got into jazz.

I've met a lot of jazz musicians in my day, and they're all funny.

I was totally into jazz in my teens.

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

I was really a nerd, and I was really more of a jazz nerd. So when I had my chance to put on something, most of the time it was going to be jazz, or gospel, or something like that.

I think as long as people are around and can hear a record and hear people like Lester Young on a recording, there will always be a great inspiration for somebody to try to create jazz.

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

I have a secret love of jazz.

So I went into jazz and performed in jazz clubs all over the country.

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.

I listened to classical music. I listened to jazz. I listened to everything. And I started becoming interested in the sounds of jazz. And I went to a concert of Jazz at the Philharmonic when we lived in Omaha, Nebraska, and I saw Charlie Parker play and Billie Holiday sing and Lester Young play, and that did it. I said, 'That's what I want to do.'

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