Over time, I've loved jazz, Miles Davis and Chet Baker, then Janis and Jimi and Creedence, then classic rock. — Juliette Lewis Copy Share Image
Gospel music rhythms are not African in origin, although I know that's what the jazz experts say. — Mahalia Jackson Copy Share Image
“Play jazz with people with whom you are compatible but who will also challenge you” — Ray Dalio Copy Share Image
If it wasn't for hustlers, gangsters & gamblers there'd be no Jazz. Wasn't middle~class who said Let's go hear Bird tonight. — Betty Carter Copy Share Image
[Jazz singing] is like pornography. You can't say what it is, but you know it when you see it. — Kurt Elling Copy Share Image
Yeah, I grew up doing ballet and jazz and tap, but I stopped at the age of 25, and I've never stepped… — Kaitlyn Bristowe Copy Share Image
Blues is like the roux in a gumbo. People ask me if jazz always has the blues in it. I say, if… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
There's such a wealth of arts and styles within the guitar... flamenco, jazz, rock, blues... you name it, it's there. In the… — Jimmy Page Copy Share Image
I used to be just a total jazz freak. People used to say, 'Where's the melody? Is there a melody in there… — Glen Campbell Copy Share Image
My first Grammy wasn't even in a jazz category, but of course I was really excited. 'Rockit' was the beginning of kind… — Herbie Hancock Copy Share Image
I'm very much aware in the writing of dialogue, or even in the narrative too, of a rhythm. There has to be… — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
I really love Dinah Washington and anything live from her - she had some of the greatest jazz musicians in the whole… — Beth Hart Copy Share Image
Ragtime has about the same amount of respect as comics. And in a way they're similar art forms. Ragtime is highly compositional,… — Chris Ware Copy Share Image
As I've grown older I've been more influenced by more meandering styles of guitar playing, whether it's Celtic or Ethiopian folk music… — Ted Leo Copy Share Image
If one takes all the styles in jazz harmonically from the earliest beginnings to the latest experiments, he still has a rather… — Don Ellis Copy Share Image
“Everywhere was the atmosphere of a long debauch that had to end; the orchestras played too fast, the stakes were too high… — Malcolm Cowley Copy Share Image
Jazz is musical humor. The noun jazz describes a modern American technique for the playing of any music, accompanied by noise called… — Bix Beiderbecke Copy Share Image
I had a hole in my voice. It's an area in the voice where it's air. It's just - there's no -… — Cecile McLorin Salvant Copy Share Image
The humor of jazz is rich and many-sided. Some of it is obvious enough to make a dog laugh. Some is subtle,… — Bix Beiderbecke Copy Share Image
Truth of the matter is, jazz is American music. And that doesn't mean bebop. Jazz is really about improvising. All the music… — Jaimoe Copy Share Image
My first love in music was jazz, but I like it all," "I reacted emotionally to Art Blakey and, of course, to… — Larry Carlton Copy Share Image
Everything comes from one thing, everything comes from the Spirit. Jazz would not exist had it not been for gospel music, the… — Ramsey Lewis Copy Share Image
I was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and am a product of a family that were jazz aficionados and also very interested in… — Jack Waters Copy Share Image
Thank you, ladies and gentlemen, for your magnificent indifference. — Dizzy Gillespie Copy Share Image
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