Jazz music is an intensified feeling of nonchalance.
Francoise Sagan
Jazz is not the kind of music you are going to learn to play in three or four years or that you can just get because you have some talent for music.
Wynton Marsalis
If it comes out sounding like Dixieland jazz or classical or punk or rock or even slightly metal, that's because that's where I'm going to find inspiration.
Ben Harper
Jazz is rhythm and meaning.
Henri Matisse
Writing is a question of finding a certain rhythm. I compare it to the rhythms of jazz. Much of the time life is a sort of rhythmic progression of three characters. If one tells oneself that life is like that, one feels it less arbitrary.
Francoise Sagan
Gospel music rhythms are not African in origin, although I know that's what the jazz experts say.
Mahalia Jackson
I can turn on some jazz guitarist, and he won't do a thing for me, if he's not playing electrically. But Jeff Beck's great to listen to.
Ritchie Blackmore
I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract Expressionism.
Don DeLillo