I don't like heroin, unless you're a jazz musician and then you have to be on it because jazz is the sound… — John Waters Copy Share Image
Eclecticism is the word. Like a jazz musician who creates his own style out of the styles around him, I play by… — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
A lot of times, jazz musicians try to educate people. What other genre does that? — Robert Glasper Copy Share Image
[Jazz musicians] couldn't cut rock. I had to be more limited and specific about what I was doing. — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
I don't care if a dude is purple with green breath as long as he can swing. — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
I'm thrilled when I hear the greatest jazz musicians. They continue to search in ways other musicians do not. — Kurt Elling Copy Share Image
Once the jazz musician learns all the fundamentals they can keep track of a lot of choices in an instant. — Sheena Iyengar Copy Share Image
I knew I could never be accepted as a straight-ahead jazz musician, nor would Iaccept myself as that. I would never be… — Anthony Davis Copy Share Image
People who love jazz musicians love us when we play what we want to play and we're starving. But as soon as… — George Benson Copy Share Image
All music now, I think, is fair game for jazz musicians to interpret, and they have been. I would consider those songs… — Patricia Barber Copy Share Image
My secret dream has always been to be a jazz musician. I tried the saxophone for a year or two when I… — Gaspard Ulliel Copy Share Image
I actually wanted to be a jazz musician first. My grandparents introduced me to Louis Armstrong. I loved Louis Armstrong so I… — Douglas Booth Copy Share Image
Grace Kelly plays with intelligence, wit and feeling. She has a great amount of natural ability and the ability to adapt. That… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
This whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, “Is there a meaning to music?” My answer to that would be,… — Aaron Copland Copy Share Image
I have always been a person who is concerned with the dignity of jazz music and the way jazz musicians have been… — Sonny Rollins Copy Share Image
But you listen to Coltrane and that's something human, something that's about elevation. It's like making love to a woman. It's about… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
I started as a musician. I play the saxophone, but from the age of 17, I realised that it's very hard to… — John Polson Copy Share Image
I don't like it when a player says, 'I like freedom; I want to play for myself.' Because the player has to… — Pep Guardiola Copy Share Image
I grew up in a home filled with music and had an early appreciation of jazz since my dad was a jazz… — Molly Ringwald Copy Share Image
I really thought I was gonna have a straight gig. But these jazz musicians put their arms around me time and again… — Kurt Elling Copy Share Image
The most important thing to do as an artist is to get out of your comfort zone and work with different people:… — Katie Noonan Copy Share Image
“I was enraptured by Elaine’s tales about Billie and all the other famous jazz musicians she had known. For instance, she told… — Jenifer Lewis Copy Share Image
Comedy is the drug, when they laugh it's like I'm a jazz musician and they hear it, and they get it. It's… — Alonzo Bodden Copy Share Image
“Sociobiologist Edward O. Wilson later said that there should be a “consilience” between art and science. 79 Former NASA astronaut Mae Jemison… — Sarah Lewis Copy Share Image
My novels and poems are meant to be read aloud. That's why jazz musicians have been able to adapt my stuff. — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
In Europe, they like everything you do. The mistakes and everything. That's a little bit too much. — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
If you find a note tonight that sounds good, play the same damn note every night! — Count Basie Copy Share Image
Iceland is so small; classical musicians play on pop projects and pop musicians play with jazz musicians. — Laufey Copy Share Image
Jazz musicians have always tended to have cult followings, which is pretty wonderful. — Dianne Reeves Copy Share Image
Jazz musicians have always taken the standards of their time and performed them with a jazz sensibility. — Dianne Reeves Copy Share Image
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