Jazz quotes

6 jazz quotes, film quotes, movie lines, taglines
  • “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't decided.”
    Yeardley Smith - Lisa Simpson
    [Tag:jazz, music]
  • “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!”

    Ryan Gosling - Sebastian
    [Tag:jazz, music]
  • “I just feel that people, when they say that they, you know, hate jazz... they just... they don't have context, they don't know where it comes from. You know? Jazz was born in a little flophouse in New Orleans, and it just, because people were crammed in there, they spoke five different languages, they couldn't talk to each other. The only way...” (continue)(continue reading)
    Ryan Gosling - Sebastian
    [Tag:jazz, music]
  • “How are you gonna be a revolutionary if you're such a traditionalist? You hold onto the past, but jazz is about the future.”
    John Legend - Keith
    [Tag:future, jazz, revolution]
  • From the animation: Soul
    “That guy was lost in the music. He was in it, and he took the rest of us with him. And I wanted to learn how to talk like that. That’s when I knew I was born to play.”
    Jamie Foxx - Joe
    [Tag:jazz, music, passion]
  • “To just do nothing but sing like a good jazz singer is hard.”
    Liza Minnelli
    [Tag:jazz, singers]
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