Smooth Jazz Quotes:

Whoever invented smooth jazz, man, I wanna kill 'em: You're turning an art form into a hooker.

- Phil Woods

topic: Art, Men, Smooth Jazz

People are always defining and re-defining music. My style of playing has been characterized as smooth jazz and acid jazz. I listen as I play; I'm not caught up in defining the type of music I play.

- Roy Ayers

topic: Play, Smooth Jazz, People

I couldn't get my album played over the so-called smooth jazz stations. Jazz stations would not play it. You don't always know who you're making that soul connection with.

- Roy Ayers

topic: Play, Smooth Jazz, Soul, Stations

Dinner 'conversation' at the Cohens' meant my sister, mom, and I relaying in brutal detail the day's events in a state of amplified hysteria, while my father listened to his own smooth jazz station in his head.

- Andy Cohen

source: Andy Cohen (2012). “Most Talkative: Stories from the Front Lines of Pop Culture”, p.7, Macmillan

topic: Mom, Father, Smooth Jazz, Dinner Conversation

Jazz is smooth and cool. Jazz is rage. Jazz flows like water. Jazz never seems to begin or end. Jazz isn't methodical, but jazz isn't messy either. Jazz is a conversation, a give and take. Jazz is the connection and communication between musicians. Jazz is abandon.

- Nat Wolff

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Communication, Giving, Water, Jazz Age, Music Life

Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.

- Charles Mingus

source: Charles Mingus' statement in Mainliner Magazine (July 1977); later quoted in Olivia Bertagnolli "Creativity and the writing process" (p. 182), 1982.

topic: Inspirational, Inspiring, Music, Life Is Complicated, Life Is Simple

It's taken me all my life to learn what not to play.

- Dizzy Gillespie

source: Quoted in N Hentoff Jazz Is (1978).

topic: Music, Taken, Play, Jazz And Life, Smooth Jazz

Jazz music should be inclusive. Smooth jazz to me rules out a certain kind of drama and a certain tension that I think all music needs. Especially jazz music, since improvising is one of the cornerstones of what jazz is. And when you smooth it out, you take all the drama out of it.

- David Sanborn

source: "Once-stricken saxman: Music 'gave me my life'". Interview with Shanon Cook, www.cnn.com. August 15, 2008.

topic: Drama, Thinking, Needs, Improvising, Smooth Jazz

The whole rise of new adult contemporary music and smooth jazz was a nice surprise.

- Kenny G

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Nice, Adults, Jazz, Smooth Jazz, Contemporary Music

My other friends are in music relaxation class, which I do not attend, because smooth jazz makes me angry sometimes.

- Matthew Quick

topic: Class, Relaxation, Jazz, Smooth Jazz, Make Me Angry

Say That! is an iron fist upside the mushy head of smooth jazz, and Grant Geissman's defiant declaration of independence.

- Bill Milkowski

topic: Iron, Independence, Fists, Smooth Jazz