I have believed for many years that Oscar Peterson is not only the greatest pianist in jazz today, but the greatest it… — Gene Lees Copy Share Image
I'd love to act. I feel that it's another naked, mysterious challenge, like jazz. It kind of intrigues me in the same… — Paula Cole Copy Share Image
As any jazz musician knows, it takes flexibility and adaptability for improvisation to create beauty. — Doc Childre Copy Share Image
They're not particular whether you're playing a flat 5th or a ruptured 129th as long as they can dance. — Dizzy Gillespie Copy Share Image
That's kind of like how jazz is sometimes. You're out there predicting the future, and no one believes you. — Branford Marsalis Copy Share Image
Y'know, I don't like jazz much. I'll put it on once in a while and listen, and I'll appreciate it. — Joe Perry Copy Share Image
This is one of the major purposes of soul and jazz music; to state what you feel. — Gregory Porter Copy Share Image
Most jazz players work out their solos, at least to the extent that they have a very specific vocabulary. — Lee Konitz Copy Share Image
Here's our shtick line to describe our music: It's our garage band attempt at our appreciation of jazz improvisation through the reality… — John Popper Copy Share Image
I was 16 years old, and I was just flailing around, looking for an interest. I heard, you know, these jazz records.… — Harvey Pekar Copy Share Image
I don't outline. I sit down to write, and I take the ride. If something starts to not feel right, I go… — Taylor Sheridan Copy Share Image
I was sometimes doing DJ stuff and working in a record shop in Tokyo. That place was a very unique shop. It… — Miho Hatori Copy Share Image
Brubeck, for instance, is not careless. He's a studied guy. And even if his picture ends up on the back cover of… — Eddie Condon Copy Share Image
I used to sing with my father's jazz band and then when I was ten years old a musician friend of his… — Molly Ringwald Copy Share Image
This is positively not an album to play while you do a doctorate thesis on "Bergson, Webern and Charles the Vicious, Paradox… — Bob Brookmeyer Copy Share Image
Europeans really provided many venues over there and hailed the jazz artists, and a lot of musicians went over there and stayed… — Sonny Rollins Copy Share Image
I have learned as much about writing about my people by listening to blues and jazz and spirituals as I have from… — Ernest Gaines Copy Share Image
Today I believe that man cannot escape his destiny to create whatever it is we make - jazz, a wooden spoon, or… — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
“There was no control except the " mood of his power... and it is for this reason it is good you never… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
I like to shoot beautiful things. My two previous movies were one in the '60s, the other one in the '50s, and… — Michel Hazanavicius Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a jazz pianist, but I wasn't good enough. I got into city college because I didn't have the… — Dustin Hoffman Copy Share Image
Once there was Louis Armstrong blowing his beautiful top in the muds of New Orleans; before him the mad musicians who had… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
There's this certain caliber of dancing I was striving for when I was younger, and it's very hard for me to go… — Summer Glau Copy Share Image
A lot of us have classical and jazz training, and it would be hard for us to work with a hip-hop artist… — Philip Bailey Copy Share Image
When I got pretty good I went on the road with a group. We starved. — Wes Montgomery Copy Share Image
