I've always gravitated toward technical music in general. I love jazz fusion. — Daveed Diggs Copy Share Image
I missed jazz, kind of. And by the time I came to it in life, it was too intimidating to enjoy thoroughly. — Warren Zevon Copy Share Image
When there's an imbalance in terms of what people get to hear, then that's negative. Then blues, jazz, it will die. — Gregory Porter Copy Share Image
I'm into the old school. I listen to rock, soft rock, jazz, old school R&B. — Biz Markie Copy Share Image
I was in band all the way through high school, and I played in jazz competitions all across Iowa. — Joey Jordison Copy Share Image
New Orleans is gumbo. You get so man types of things... jazz, folk, Zydeco. — Luke James Copy Share Image
The first time I heard a professional jazz quartet practicing in a house down the street it was almost like an out-of-body… — Philip Bailey Copy Share Image
I thought, If I'm gonna run a jazz club, if I've got Miles Davis' posters in my bar, I should at least… — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
I grew up listening to a lot of classic jazz, and stuff like The Beatles, and old Motown stuff, and a lot… — Alison Sudol Copy Share Image
The E Street band casts a pretty wide net. Our influences go all the way back to the early primitive garage music,… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
As long as there are musicians who have a passion for spontaneity, for creating something that's never been before, the art form… — Charlie Haden Copy Share Image
I listen to and I play all kinds of music, and I'm interested in jazz and in bluegrass - I like it… — Andy Garcia Copy Share Image
I used to hang out a lot in jazz clubs, and the groups took to a kid like me who wasn't afraid… — Eric Burdon Copy Share Image
I don't really have a favorite genre. I could listen to a rock song, a metal song, jazz, pop music, whatever. For… — Bakermat Copy Share Image
Hell, nobody knows where jazz is going to go. There may be a kid right now in Chitlin Switch, Georgia, who is… — Quincy Jones Copy Share Image
I came upon Diana Krall's jazz arrangement of "A Case of You" several years back. I've always wanted to pay homage to… — Cheyenne Jackson Copy Share Image
When I came to New York, to Brooklyn, I met Alvin Ailey and Stanley Crouch and August Wilson. They were always putting… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
I was in college, but I got kicked out. It was a very free school, but I created a "bad impression." Like… — Steve Winwood Copy Share Image
The trouble with most musicians today is that they are copycats. Of course you have to start out playing like someone else.… — Lester Young Copy Share Image
Reading was like an addiction; I read while I ate, on the train, in bed until late at night, in school, where… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Almost immediately after jazz musicians arrived in Paris, they began to gather in two of the city’s most important creative neighborhoods: Montmartre… — Jeffrey H. Jackson Copy Share Image
“I started going to jazz clubs in New York when I was twelve or thirteen, first with my older cousins Mike and… — Donald Fagen Copy Share Image
Recording in Nashville was absolutely essential to get the sound, the musicians, the atmosphere, the warmth... There are just cult places like… — Roch Voisine Copy Share Image
Something special can happen late at night in a jazz club. As the crowd thins, the musicians intuitively sense that those few… — Patricia Barber Copy Share Image
