I started off with classical music, and I got into jazz when I was about 14 years old. And I've been playing… — Herbie Hancock Copy Share Image
If you listen to nature, all the sounds are done in a confident way. I'm trying to do that. — Roscoe Mitchell Copy Share Image
There are a million examples of not feeling the jazz, but using the jazz. — Zooey Deschanel Copy Share Image
I loved music from the age of eight. Jazz and blues. But also Little Richard and Elvis Presley. — Bryan Ferry Copy Share Image
Yes, I have been studying piano since I was six. Classical, jazz, compositional, Broadway, everything. I just love it all. — Janel Parrish Copy Share Image
Growing up playing jazz and improvising has had a big impact on me, and it translates into my music. — Stephen Bruner Copy Share Image
Astronomers, like burglars and jazz musicians, operate best at night. — Miles Kington Copy Share Image
My first guitar, a Fender Jazz Master, I traded it in for a Les Paul Deluxe. — Lenny Kravitz Copy Share Image
I wanna show that gospel, country, blues, rhythm and blues, jazz, rock 'n' roll are all just really one thing. Those are… — Etta James Copy Share Image
I want to make hip-hop that can use guitars and soul and jazz and just fuse it all together. And I want… — Will Ferrell Copy Share Image
“She leaves my side and heads deeper into the apartment singing, “—if the spirit tries to hide, its temple far away… a… — Nathan Reese Maher Copy Share Image
My father was a jazz listener, and I think, at least before I was 5, I was not so into that. Although… — Wallace Shawn Copy Share Image
I don't regard myself as a great classical or jazz pianist. I like country music, but I'm not a great player. I… — Keith Emerson Copy Share Image
For guitar players especially, blues is the foundation of rock and roll. You take country music and rock and roll and jazz… — Steve Miller Copy Share Image
...my little blurb wasn't going to win me any speaker-of-the-year awards, but at least I hadn't tripped and fallen off the stage,… — Jordan Sonnenblick Copy Share Image
That's what I tell my students at California Institute of the Arts where I taught for 27 years. I taught them if… — Charlie Haden Copy Share Image
Improvisation sometimes seemed more like jazz than acting, like verbal jazz, with the actors playing a theme back and forth, and then… — Alan Arkin Copy Share Image
The guitar for me is a translation device. It's not a goal. And in some ways, jazz isn't a destination for me.… — Pat Metheny Copy Share Image
I've always romanticized the late '40s and '50s - the cars, jazz, the open roads and lack of pollution. Now there are… — Garrett Hedlund Copy Share Image
“In his book Real Presences, George Steiner asks us to "imagine a society in which all talk about the arts, music and… — Geoff Dyer Copy Share Image
I started singing Folksongs with my mother when I was 6 years old. We sang at Folk festivals and concerts and schools.… — Vicki Sue Robinson Copy Share Image
And if you look around, if you listen to some music nowdays, I'm not so optimistic...I have the feeling that some of… — Peter Brotzmann Copy Share Image
It's really not a stretch. The checks and balances are the same. The drums are the executive branch. The jazz orchestra is… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
For the most part, 99 percent of jazz is boring; you've heard it before. People aren't doing anything creative that's extremely modern.… — Robert Glasper Copy Share Image
My whole life, my whole soul, my whole spirit is to blow that horn. — Louis Armstrong Copy Share Image
