I never liked blues and I really didn’t like jazz. I liked Chuck Berry. — Johnny Ramone Copy Share Image
I got more publicity for not doing a festival than for doing the festival. — George Wein Copy Share Image
I love the sounds of Latin jazz, R&B, hip-hop, alternative, all that stuff. I'm a radio kid. — Mario Vazquez Copy Share Image
I played in school jazz bands and tried to start rock bands, but nobody was interested. — Courtney Barnett Copy Share Image
I'm a jazz musician, and I really wanted to not miss an opportunity to have the full connection to jazz. — Kurt Elling Copy Share Image
I got into trad jazz, then modern jazz, then avant-garde jazz, between the ages of 16 to 18. — Roy Harper Copy Share Image
Improvisation is the ability to create something very spiritual, something of one's own. — Sonny Rollins Copy Share Image
The first job I ever had was singing in a jazz club when I was like 15 with my friend, and we… — Zooey Deschanel Copy Share Image
In England, we'd leave school at 15 and go on to a college, and I went to further education in a town… — Donovan Copy Share Image
In September 2012, I got the blues pretty bad, so I stopped playing for a little while. I started to renew my… — Bill Ward Copy Share Image
Intimate singing had a wonderful style in the '30s and '40s. It came out of Broadway and the jazz of Louis Armstrong… — Tony Bennett Copy Share Image
I like jazz, but I could never play it. You just sit there with a guitar the size of a Chevy on… — Dave Mustaine Copy Share Image
In Malaysia, we have a lot of divas, like Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey singers. And they were all so so talented, just… — Yuna Copy Share Image
It's one thing to just play a tune, or play a program of music, but it's another thing to practically create a… — Chick Corea Copy Share Image
I mostly listen to very popular songs. But I'm a huge fan of Stevie Wonder, and I love jazz - Glenn Fredly,… — Joe Taslim Copy Share Image
People with talent are not interested in showing off behind another person. They're more interested in the music. [Charlie Parker] was playing… — Helen Merrill Copy Share Image
When I start to think about all the things, I'm doing sometimes I just have to thank the man upstairs. Because I'm… — Ramsey Lewis Copy Share Image
I just saw a recent television program about art, and it was saying how from the end of the Second World War,… — Robert Wyatt Copy Share Image
One ironic thing is that although (the Soviet Union) was one of the most oppressive systems, with no respect for the individual,… — Gabe Polsky 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
Jazz is not background music. You must concentrate upon it in order to get the most of it. You must absorb most… — Horace Silver Copy Share Image
Do not enjoy yourself. Enjoy dances and theaters and joy-rides and champagne and oysters; enjoy jazz and cocktails and night-clubs if you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I was raised on piano and saxophone and jazz music for ten or twelve years. Before I even picked up a bass.… — Matt Snell Copy Share Image
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