During our first meeting, Tony Iommi was a great jazz guitarist, his capabilities cover all styles - Black Sabbath has even narrowed his horizons.
I'm not a jazz singer, blues singer or country singer. I'm a singer that can sing rhythm & blues, that can sing jazz, that can sing country. There's a big difference. In other words, I'm not a specialist.
It's not exclusive, but inclusive, which is the whole spirit of jazz.
I like to go hear jazz late-night up in Harlem.
Day in, day out. That same old voodoo follows me about.
Talent is a burden not a joy. I am not of this planet. I do not come from you. I am not like you.
Jazz is the continual pulsation of the now.
I did jazz dance for a few years.
Pain can be washed out with a song. Pain can become jazz digested and transformed.
Louis Armstrong was the primary contributor to jazz music in the 20th century. His improvisational skills served as the principal model for all who came after him, regardless of one's chosen instrument.
I have to plead basic ignorance of most new jazz artists here.
I'm the first one out on the dance floor. In college I had to take jazz, ballet and tap dancing, but, before that, it was just social.
Up to the age of 14 I had not heard a note of anything before 1750, never heard a note of Bach, never heard anything after Wagner, and never heard any real jazz.
Jazz is not gonna be a dinosaur and stay around in one form.
Music is a gift and a burden I've had since I can remember who I was.
Just because I'm playing Jazz I don't forget about me. I play or write me the way I feel through Jazz.
I'm very much aware in the writing of dialogue, or even in the narrative too, of a rhythm. There has to be a rhythm with it … Interviewers have said, you like jazz, don’t you? Because we can hear it in your writing. And I thought that was a compliment.
I took the frets out of my bass after I was getting into jazz a lot and I wanted to have that upright sound.
I think jazz is a phenomenal creative force, because it's one man, one vote as you're playing, but it's a collective thing, what you're doing. You're listening to all the musicians around you and you're working within that structure.
Jazz music is a language of the emotions.