“Jazz, like left-wing politics and 'the common man', was a cause .” — Martin T. Williams Copy Share Image
I'm just trying to avoid any sort of generic kind of music - I don't want to do generic jazz or fusion. — Andy Summers Copy Share Image
My own Brubeck Institute in California is turning out fantastic young jazz players, and I know great things will happen. — Dave Brubeck Copy Share Image
I'm a musician and, just as the critics are hard on me, I'm hard on the critics. — Oscar Peterson Copy Share Image
I think that a musician is like a doctor, he's supposed to heal people and make them feel better. — Steve Turre Copy Share Image
What I'm doing, I prefer to call that jazz, because it is a beautiful word - I love it. — Dexter Gordon Copy Share Image
“Gathering seeds of thoughts, that blows away in the slightest of breezes.” — Jazz Feylynn Copy Share Image
I'm a rap comedian the same way Bill Cosby is a jazz comedian, Cosby's laid back. I'm like, bang, bang bang, right… — Chris Rock Copy Share Image
Jazz and blues fests are everywhere now, and Americana is going strong on college radio. What I'm hearing is an appreciation of… — Bonnie Raitt Copy Share Image
I learned jazz; that comes from blues. I learned rock; that comes from blues. I learned pop; that comes from blues. Even… — Cyndi Lauper Copy Share Image
Rip Rig + Panic that I joined, they were really influenced by jazz and blues and punk. So I think what happened… — Neneh Cherry Copy Share Image
I like a very dark house, just black. I sit there and just think. Once I'm still and quiet inside, I'll begin.… — Bobby McFerrin Copy Share Image
In the last few years I've been listening to jazz more than anything else. I listen to a lot of world music… — Serj Tankian Copy Share Image
I'd have no trouble being the barbecue kingpin of America. I'd just add it to all the other things I am: jazz… — Bobby Seale Copy Share Image
The blues. It runs through all American music. Somebody bending the note. The other is the two-beat groove. It's in New Orleans… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
And what happened was, it's the same thing an older, more successful writer of ficition might say to a student: write about… — Larry Coryell Copy Share Image
The music I like to play is Rock 'N Roll. I like to rock like a wild animal. I like to rock… — Wesley Willis Copy Share Image
I owe Marilyn Monroe a real debt … she personally called the owner of the Mocambo, and told him she wanted me… — Ella Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Negro music has touched America because it is the melody of the soul joined with the rhythm of the machine. It is… — Le Corbusier Copy Share Image
Cultures have long heard wisdom in non-human voices: Apollo, god of music, medicine and knowledge, came to Delphi in the form of… — Jay Griffiths Copy Share Image
If you want the film [La La Land ] to represent all things jazz, it does not. You'll be disappointed by that.… — John Legend Copy Share Image
“And I like Strauss and Mozart and all that, but the priceless gift that African Americans gave the world when they were… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Most of the music I've become interested in is hybrid in its originsClassical music, of course, is unbelievably hybrid. Jazz is an… — Edgar Meyer Copy Share Image
If your parents only listen to jazz or folk, you're like one of those trees you see in botanic gardens that have… — KT Tunstall Copy Share Image
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