Kurt Vonnegut Quotes

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

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.

Certainly, jazz has become more of a niche, which is surprising, because it's our music. It's the national music of America.

It's always Jazz. You can put a new dress on her, a new hat, but no matter what kind of clothes she's the same old broad.

Rock 'n roll smells phony and false. It is sung, played and written for the most part by cretinous goons and by means of its almost imbecilic reiteration and sly, lewd, in plain fact, dirty lyrics ... manages to be the martial music of every side-burned delinquent on the face of the earth.

Man, as long as people want to hear Jazz, I'll give it to them.

That.s what Jazz music is all about.We started the Messengers because somebody had to mind the store for jazz.No America--no Jazz. It is the only culture that America has brought forth.

I really love jazz, but I will never be a jazz musician as much as I dream. But, I think that the jazz music I love is there in my music.

Some people think I'm a rock 'n' roll musician and some think I'm a jazz musician but, for me, there is no difference.

Thelonious Sphere Monk: there's not a more perfect name to fit his compositions than that name.

Even though I left for a year, I grew here as a Jazz man. If I'm fortunate enough to go into the Hall of Fame, I will go as a Jazz man.

As far as I'm concerned, blues and jazz are the great American contributions to music.

I studied opera for a year at Georgia State University, but I wasn't interested in that meticulous, technical approach to music. So I left school and went back to jazz.

You literally cannot deny the fact that rock and roll was born because of blues, and blues is black man's music.

I didn't like progressive jazz or anything. Rock was something I like to listen to.

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

Rock & roll fan that I am, Thelonious Monk is probably my favorite musical artist.

Black people have always loved the blues - they basically created the blues.

I always felt of myself as a composer, performer, improviser. I've never called myself a jazz man. I make art.

Nothing surpasses my performances with small bands, especially with Charlie Parker. A small band doesn't forestall creativity.

Women play cellos and violins in symphony orchestras. They're playing Beethoven and Bach. What do you mean they can't play rock and roll?

In pop music, you say, 'You can do what you want to me.' Rock 'n' roll says, 'I'm gonna do what I want to you.'

My music is rock. I listen to Red Hot Chili Peppers and I listen to one of my songs, and if I don't give you the same emotion, then I go back and re-spit.

I'm into rock'n'roll because rock'n'roll, to me, means freedom.

Jazz is a beautiful woman whose older brother is a policeman.