KKJZ is a very famous jazz station and there aren't many more around like them. — Frank Sinatra Jr Copy Share Image
I would like to thank my father who discouraged me from playing the violin at an early age. — Paul Desmond Copy Share Image
There's nothing wrong with it. It's only a word. What's in a name? Nothing! Cats say, "Call me Muhammed so-and-so. " — Art Blakey Copy Share Image
Where I grew up, Bob Wills and his western swing was very popular. And western swing is not that far from jazz… — Willie Nelson Copy Share Image
We are serious about our music here in Philadelphia, and jazz has meant a lot to this city. — Michael Nutter Copy Share Image
I'm a person of change and I must be honest to my artistry and my creativity. That's part of the word 'jazz'...… — Maynard Ferguson Copy Share Image
Whenever society gets too stifling and the rules too complex, there's some sort of musical explosion. — Slash Copy Share Image
My music is the spiritual expression of what I am: my faith, my knowledge, my being. — John Coltrane Copy Share Image
The word [jazz] never lost its association with those New Orleans bordellos. In the 1920s I used to try to convince Fletcher… — Duke Ellington Copy Share Image
When people ask me how is it I was a musician, I facetiously say that I'm a firm believer in reincarnation and… — George Shearing Copy Share Image
You hear about the Duke Ellingtons, the Jimmie Luncefords, and the Fletcher Hendersons, but people sometimes forget that jazz was not only… — Cab Calloway Copy Share Image
It's not easy to play in a framework that requires simplicity and to tastefully find ways to interject the kind of freedom… — Herbie Hancock Copy Share Image
What 'jazz' means to me is the worst kind of working conditions, the worst in cultural prejudice. The term 'jazz' has come… — Maxim Gorky 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
I figured, if someone wants to do classical music, or blues, or jazz, they move to an area where that's popular, and… — Jimmie Allen Copy Share Image
Karl Johnson, my first piano player at Milt Trenier's, he just swung really hard and gave me a sense of really belonging… — Kurt Elling Copy Share Image
We always talk about how everyone is unifocal. You can't possibly be interested in jazz and Beethoven. Of course you can. You… — Harold Evans Copy Share Image
When I was home, traditionally since I was young, I'd write in cafés. That was the romantic notion in 1963. Café atmospheres… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Somerset desperately needs more high-end music making on its doorstep, so the chance to share great music spanning genres as diverse as… — Charles Hazlewood Copy Share Image
I looked back on the roaring Twenties - with its jazz, 'Great Gatsby,' and the pre-Code films - as a party I… — Hugh Hefner 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
I have every iPod that's been made ˘ that's how sick I am. I carry anything and everything I possibly would want… — Thomas Hampson Copy Share Image
It wasn't until I got older that when they started putting only one form of music on the stations where I grew… — Uncle Kracker Copy Share Image
There's a more experimental album that follows that, which is like Black Magic and While You Were Sleeping. Then there's a return… — Jose James Copy Share Image
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