“Jazz, like left-wing politics and 'the common man', was a cause .” — Martin T. Williams Copy Share Image
There are no natural barriers. It's all music. It's either hip or it ain't. — Lee Morgan Copy Share Image
Clifford Brown was in the jazz circles considered to be probably the greatest trumpet player who ever lived. — Herb Alpert 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
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 was in band all the way through high school, and I played in jazz competitions all across Iowa. — Joey Jordison 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
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 love jazz and pop rock and country. I grew up listening to Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston, Def Leppard, AC/DC, Anne Murray… — Natalie MacMaster Copy Share Image
Jazz is an interesting music. It's one of the few forms of music where everyone that's performing the music has a creative… — Kamasi Washington Copy Share Image
If there's any such thing as a perfect man, I think John Coltrane was one. And I think that kind of perfection… — Elvin Jones Copy Share Image
If you ask me, rockabilly has had a raw deal for far too long. People never shunned the blues or jazz the… — Imelda May Copy Share Image
I always had a great appreciation for jazz, but I'm a very pedestrian musician. I get by. I like to think that… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
If it comes out sounding like Dixieland jazz or classical or punk or rock or even slightly metal, that's because that's where… — Ben Harper Copy Share Image
We grew up listening to a variety of music, such as Gospel/Christian, R&B old/new school, jazz, blues, Mozart, Mary Poppins, Frank Sinatra,… — Michelle Carter Copy Share Image
All the jazz guys had interracial relationships, and even the ladies did. Over the years, interracial relationships have been a hip, almost… — Quincy Jones 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
I was an absolute idiot, wearing polo-necks, reading Kerouac, watching Woody Allen movies, and jazz fitted right into all of that. My… — Jamie Cullum Copy Share Image
Jazz music, as is also the case with the old down-home spirituals, gospel and jubilee songs, jumps, shouts and moans, is essentially… — Albert Murray Copy Share Image
I grew up listening to Switchfoot. I love Switchfoot; they're a great band. John Foreman is awesome. I really dig mainstream pop… — Shane Harper Copy Share Image
When I was young, I never bought records because my brother Joseph played saxophone and had a record player. I loved listening… — Miriam Makeba Copy Share Image
His musical inspiration operates in a world uncluttered by conventional bar lines, conventional chord changes, and conventional ways of blowing or fingering… — Gunther Schuller Copy Share Image
For the moment, the jazz is playing; there is no melody, just notes, a myriad tiny tremors. The notes know no rest,… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
I lay in that tub on the seventeenth floor of this hotel for-women-only, high up over the jazz and push of New… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
