I am friends with the most amazing musicians that can do pop, rap, punk and jazz. — Kenny Beats Copy Share Image
Jazz is not something that can be defined through blunt instruments. It is much more poetic than that. — Pat Metheny Copy Share Image
I didn't really grow up on hip-hop. Ella Fitzgerald and the old school jazz divas are more my comfort zone. — Gugu Mbatha-Raw Copy Share Image
As jazz fans, it was amusing for us to play jazz harmonies on these big, ugly electric guitars. — Donald Fagen Copy Share Image
Some people think I'm a rock 'n' roll musician and some think I'm a jazz musician but, for me, there is no… — Georgie Fame Copy Share Image
Anyone who understands Jazz knows that you can't understand it. It's too complicated. That's what's so simple about it. — Yogi Berra Copy Share Image
I grew up in a jazz household. They made me listen to jazz before I could hear my Motown. — Jeffrey Osborne Copy Share Image
Sometimes when we're flying or in the hotel, I might run over songs, or in the bathroom. — Ella Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I was very thrilled to witness the workby my ol' buddy Jim Widner whose expertise in the field of jazz education proved… — Clark Terry Copy Share Image
D.C. is a great place. The music, jazz, has always been great here, the restaurants have always been fantastic here. And there's… — George Lopez Copy Share Image
How can music without any words make you think? I listen to jazz when I'm doing something else. I use it for… — Eddie Murphy Copy Share Image
All music now, I think, is fair game for jazz musicians to interpret, and they have been. I would consider those songs… — Patricia Barber Copy Share Image
I used to try to play like [Miles Davis], and Miles caught me copying him one night at Birdland. He said, 'Hey… — Freddie Hubbard Copy Share Image
I don't really have a favorite genre. I could listen to a rock song, a metal song, jazz, pop music, whatever. For… — Bakermat Copy Share Image
Hell, nobody knows where jazz is going to go. There may be a kid right now in Chitlin Switch, Georgia, who is… — Quincy Jones Copy Share Image
I came upon Diana Krall's jazz arrangement of "A Case of You" several years back. I've always wanted to pay homage to… — Cheyenne Jackson Copy Share Image
When you think of diversity, George Duke fits that bill better than a lot of people. He's played a lot of straight-ahead… — Christian McBride Copy Share Image
I forget what the official name of it was, but they did an all-day of roots music - every kind of music… — Scotty Moore Copy Share Image
Jazz music and, more specifically, jazz musicians, are my artistic heroes. I want to be the Thelonious Monk of acting. He had… — Trevor St. John Copy Share Image
The cool thing is that jazz is really a wonderful example of the great characteristics of Buddhism and great characteristics of the… — Herbie Hancock Copy Share Image
“Today you go into make a modern recording with all this technology. The bass plays first, then the drums come in later,… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
Even my colleagues don't read classic criticism. And my feeling is that if you don't do that then you're not really practicing… — Gary Giddins Copy Share Image
“He’d been toting it, and checking it, and packing and unpacking, all the way since fate was on the river - that’s… — John Clellon Holmes Copy Share Image
“There are more guys than girls in jazz. Next-to-no lady trumpeters (oh, there are a few) but it doesn't matter because, for… — Stasia Ward Kehoe Copy Share Image
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