I don't like totally free jazz, unless it's done by somebody like Coltrane, who did bebop and cool jazz, so he was… — John Densmore Copy Share Image
In my teenage years I was as addicted to great pop as I was to free jazz, electronic music, and hardcore blues. — Scott Walker Copy Share Image
Hearing Marilyn Crispell play solo piano is like monitoring an active volcano. She is one of a very few pianists who rise… — Jon Pareles Copy Share Image
The numerous ecstatic traditions - including free jazz and funk - have all been great inspirations. — David First Copy Share Image
I don't want to do free jazz! Because free jazz - which is the musical equivalent of free marketeering - isn't actually… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
I already experimented with free jazz in the 1960s and, in my opinion, to play free jazz, you have to be a… — John McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Footballers can be like artists when the mind and body are working as one. It is what Miles Davis does when he… — Lilian Thuram Copy Share Image
A respectable-sized audience hasn't really been able to follow developments in jazz since the free jazz movement in the '60s. Some of… — Harvey Pekar Copy Share Image
The talking shows are like free jazz. I'm just gonna go out there and blow with the idea of keeping it streamlined… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
A way to make new music is to imagine looking back at the past from a future and imagine music that could… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
I was very lucky, because when I was at school, I had a great music teacher who would just take out these… — Alasdair MacLean Copy Share Image
I've always explored things that people find a bit more freakish, like free jazz, and I'd gotten to a point where the… — Kieran Hebden Copy Share Image
I visited New York in '63, intending to move there, but I noticed that what I valued about jazz was being discarded.… — Joe Sample Copy Share Image
“Jazz presumes that it would be nice if the four of us--simpatico dudes that we are--while playing this complicated song together, might… — Dave Hickey Copy Share Image
