Quotes tagged ‘Jazz’

“You wanna get twisted, you've gotta save jazz.”

— Donick Cary, Emily Cutler, Heather, Allisyn Ashley Arm, imdb.com

“We got to fight for our right to play smooth jazz.”

— Donick Cary, Emily Cutler, Victor Kozlowski, Jacob Houston, imdb.com

“What people outside this country, particularly in Europe, think about this country, what they like about it is generally something that comes out of black culture. It’s jazz. It’s even language. Think about what this country would be like without us. I wouldn’t even visit!”

— Toni Morrison, granta.com

“Tom Ripley: [imitating Dickie's father] 'Oh yes, jazz... it's just insolent noise.' Dickie Greenleaf: I feel like he's here. Horrible. Like the old bastard is here right now! [pause in disbelief, Dickie moves in to hold Tom's hand] Brilliant. How do you know him ?”

— Anthony Minghella, Dickie Greenleaf, Jude Law, imdb.com

“Mia: I hate jazz. Sebastian: What do you mean you hate jazz? Mia: It just means that when I listen to it, I don't like it.”

— Damien Chazelle, Sebastian Wilder, Ryan Gosling, imdb.com

“How are you gonna be a revolutionary if you're such a traditionalist? You hold onto the past, but jazz is about the future.”

— Damien Chazelle, Keith, John Legend, imdb.com

“It's conflict and it's compromise, and it's just...it's new every time. It's brand-new every night. It's very, very exciting!”

— Damien Chazelle, Sebastian Wilder, Ryan Gosling, imdb.com

“[to Bruce Banner] You really have got a lid on it, haven't you? What's your secret? Mellow jazz? Bongo drums? Huge bag of weed?”

— Joss Whedon, Zak Penn, Tony Stark / Iron Man, Robert Downey Jr., imdb.com

“Well, I'm going to be a famous jazz musician. I've got it all figured out. I'll be unappreciated in my own country, but my gutsy blues stylings will electrify the French. I'll avoid the horrors of drug abuse, but I do plan to have several torrid love affairs, and I may or may not die young. I haven'…”

— George Meyer, Lisa Simpson, Yeardley Smith, imdb.com

“Eleanor: Ugh, I hate jazz. Every jazz song is like 40 minutes long. It's like, we get it. You can blow on a trumpet. Wrap it up, Elton John. Chidi: Famously a piano player.”

— Jen Statsky, Eleanor Shellstrop, Kristen Bell, imdb.com

“I believe in Harlem. You know, my Harlem is saturated with jazz and good food and the pure genius that permeates the streets. Harlem is rising like a phoenix out of the ashes. I mean, that's what all of my various complexes are about, it's restoring that luster.”

— Nathan Louis Jackson, Mariah Dillard, Alfre Woodard, imdb.com

“There was a band called Blue Cheer, who I think were probably the originators of heavy metal because they didn’t really have traditional roots in the blues. They didn’t have a mission. It was just about being loud. Cream were very loud, too, and we got caught up in having huge banks of Marshall amps…”

— Eric Clapton, uncut.co.uk

“I wanna show that gospel, country, blues, rhythm and blues, jazz, rock ‘n’ roll are all just really one thing. Those are the American music and that is the American culture.”

— Etta James, amazon.com

“When jazz is played in another nation, it is called American. When it is played in another country, it sounds false. Jazz is the result of the energy stored up in America.”

— George Gershwin, en.wikiquote.org

“Jazz I regard as an American folk music; not the only one, but a very powerful one which is probably in the blood and feeling of the American people more than any other style of folk music.”

— George Gershwin, en.wikiquote.org

“Some kids in Italy call me 'Mama Jazz; I thought that was so cute. As long as they don't call me 'Grandma Jazz.”

— Ella Fitzgerald, ellafitzgerald.com

“Poetry, like jazz, is one of those dazzling diamonds of creative industry that help human beings make sense out of the comedies and tragedies that contextualize our lives.”

— Aberjhani, amazon.com