Jazz Listening Quotes

I listen to a lot of Freddie Hubbard.

I always say that the problem with jazz accessibility is not the content of the music, it's people's ability to access it.

Today, because I want to be gentle on my back, I listen to jazz.

In the last few years I've been listening to jazz more than anything else. I listen to a lot of world music and experimental here and there.

I think people psych themselves out before they listen to jazz a lot, thinking that they have to, like, put on a suit or something. That's not what it is.

To my ears, jazz sounds better in warm weather and after the sun has gone down. While I will listen to some of my favorite jazz records in cooler weather, it's the warmer nights that really make them come alive. Something about those sounds and the heat of the night really makes it happen for me.

Jazz sometimes can be really complicated and inaccessible to people because they don't know what to start with. You can start with something that you love, but if you start with something that you hate, then it's like, 'You know what, I hate jazz.' It took me a lot of time to catch on to jazz, too.

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.