The way I like to cook is to have music going, usually jazz, and something in my hand, usually a glass of… — Adrienne C. Moore Copy Share Image
Jazz is like a telescope, and a lot of other music is like a microscope. — Kamasi Washington Copy Share Image
All that I've played, all that I've sung, I couldn't have done any other way. — Jack Teagarden Copy Share Image
It was actually my partner, Bernard Edwards, who helped me develop my sort of funky jazz style. — Nile Rodgers Copy Share Image
Mimi Fox is one of the most exciting contemporary jazz guitarists I've heard. — Paul Gilbert Copy Share Image
When I was doing jazz concerts in America, I would use the biggest names I could find. — Norman Granz Copy Share Image
Even though I left for a year, I grew here as a Jazz man. If I'm fortunate enough to go into the… — Karl Malone Copy Share Image
Without people like Dylan and the Beatles and people like Paul Simon, I think rock n' roll would have died out like… — Robert Hilburn Copy Share Image
You look at somebody like Thurston Moore. Is he a noise dude? A punky dude? Is he a free jazz dude? He's… — Oneohtrix Point Never Copy Share Image
The obsessions of others are opaque to the unobsessed, and thus easy to mock. NASCAR, jazz, baseball, roses, poetry, quilts, fishing. If… — Roberta Smith Copy Share Image
I never liked jazz music because jazz music doesn't resolve. But I was outside the Bagdad Theater in Portland one night when… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
I've been working on something, just some jazz, relaxed stuff. It will be standard, just piano and voice. It started out as… — Justin Guarini Copy Share Image
The history of jazz for the last 45 years has come through the Monterey Jazz Festival stages. I think there's developed a… — Tim Jackson Copy Share Image
The fact that the jazz and classical worlds seem to struggle with the idea of an artist being both commercially successful and… — Laufey Copy Share Image
I started writing songs when I was 10. It was a natural way to express myself as a kid. It wasn't until… — Kimbra Copy Share Image
I have no illusions about being a genius musician. I pride myself on being a soldier, a warrior for jazz. I trained… — Phil Woods Copy Share Image
“To be a jazz freedom fighter is to attempt to galvanize and energize world-weary people into forms of organization with accountable leadership… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Beyond that, it gets down to the nuts and bolts of discipline - not a tradition or genre, I don't care about… — Vijay Iyer Copy Share Image
I look back at Ella Fitzgerald and Sarah Vaughan, and especially Betty Carter, whom I admire the most, and I say, OK,… — Dianne Reeves Copy Share Image
Jazz is an endless source of ideas, because you can use anything. You can play operatic arias. You can incorporate them into… — Sonny Rollins Copy Share Image
It's just music. It's trying to play clean and looking for the pretty notes. The beat in a bop band is with… — Charlie Parker Copy Share Image
I'd rather call it "instrumental creative music," especially the music that I've been doing. If a person would hear that music, they… — Eldar Djangirov Copy Share Image
It doesn't matter if people are playing jazz or writing poetry. If they want to be successful, they need to learn how… — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
Jazz music should be inclusive. Smooth jazz to me rules out a certain kind of drama and a certain tension that I… — David Sanborn Copy Share Image
The wonderful thing about Jazz is its willingness to take chances. — Madeleine Peyroux Copy Share Image
