Damien Chazelle Quotes

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

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

I still find it hard to believe that the whole era of jazz is over.

My father was a huge jazz fan, so I remember him playing Duke Ellington, Sarah Vaughn, and Count Basie.

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

I didn't grow up during the time that Louis Armstrong or Miles Davis and all those people were playing. So it's not really my responsibility to keep it up, what they were doing.

I heard Sidney Bechet play a Duke Ellington piece and fell in love with the soprano saxophone.

I've been a massive obsessive about jazz singers all my life.

I grew up around jazz. I love jazz.

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.

I have a large collection of biographies about jazz musicians.

When it's all said and done, jazz with a capital J is where I'm coming from. Dexter Gordon, Billie Holiday, Miles Davis, Charlie Parker, Thelonious Monk - that's what I really studied when I was a teenager and what really fueled my passion.

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

The podcast 'A History of Jazz' began telling its story in February - 100 years after the recording of 'Livery Stable Blues' by the Original Dixieland Jazz Band, the start of jazz as a legitimate branch of music.

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

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

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'm not a big jazz fan.

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.

All the classic jazz players all sang and a lot of 'em sang blues.

Change is always happening. That's one of the wonderful things about jazz music.

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 think everybody has to kind of decide what the word 'jazz' means to them, and that's fine.