Jazz Bands Quotes

What's New Orleans without music? And what's music without dancing?

When I was young, I never bought records because my brother Joseph played saxophone and had a record player. I loved listening to his records: The Dorsey Brothers, Duke Ellington, all the big American jazz bands, and vocalists like Ella Fitzgerald, Ernestine Anderson, and Kitty White, a singer from the US who was a friend of Nina Simone. Nobody in America seems to know about her, but she was quite popular in South Africa.

The history of all big jazz bands shows was, first they played for dancing, and then they played for singing.

There are no great jazz-fusion bands.

My songs were influenced not so much by poetry on the page but by poetry being recited by the poets who recited poems with jazz bands.

In the '70s... there were rock players, and there were jazz players.

I started writing songs for youth theater and stuff, and so it's really writing music for the stage that started me out, but then I eventually went to music college and did a two-year course in contemporary music and then just played in endless bands, cover bands, jazz bands.

Until I was about 16 years old, my dream was to be a musician. I played in rock bands and jazz bands. Then I decided to be an actor and kept the stable career of 'jazz pianist' as my safety net.

In the mid-1930s, a lot of the Big Bands sounded the same.

I played in school jazz bands and tried to start rock bands, but nobody was interested.