“T was in a blue mood , his open reflections on the isloation of his life floating like Jazz notes under a… — Saira Viola Copy Share Image
I'm trying to make music a sensual expression, not an academic experiment. — Andrew Hill Copy Share Image
You have to be born with it. You can't even buy it. If you could buy it, they'd have it at the… — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
To get the music the way you want it, there's a lot of work involved. — Dave Kikoski Copy Share Image
The first thing is, jazz is one of the few things to let you know that there is a God and there… — Billy Higgins Copy Share Image
It was liberating to do comedy. It felt like playing in a jazz band. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
The way that I got involved with microtonal music was, frankly, through jazz. — John Eaton Copy Share Image
My favorite type of music to sing to would be rock and roll, Tenacious D, Led Zeppelin, some Queen - I love… — Casey Abrams Copy Share Image
When I first heard music, I thought it should be very clean, very precise. Something that people could understand, something that was… — Charlie Parker Copy Share Image
I never thought that the music called "jazz" was ever meant to reach just a small group of people, or become a… — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
Jazz is the greatest American art form and our greatest export. We don't pay attention to the youth of jazz, don't stoke… — Talib Kweli Copy Share Image
What is jazz? It, It's almost like asking, What is French? Jazz is a musical language. It's a musical dialect that actually… — Branford Marsalis Copy Share Image
One of my songs was on a jazz station for awhile. It was a song that I wrote for a jazz sax… — Trevor Donovan Copy Share Image
Over the years, the critics have said, 'They never change.' Maybe the little guy's got a new color of school uniform. I… — Angus Young Copy Share Image
I'm a freak, everything has to be totally flat when I play. Ed Will, my jazz teacher, set up everything completely flat,… — Travis Barker 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
That's what it is-it's jazz. It's just jazz. That's what the whole thing is about to me. It's about what's happening right… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
I hired Bob at Terrytoons. He was my assistant animator, and then became an animator himself. He had just come from Boston… — Ralph Bakshi 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
My influences are jazz, blues, European classical music; they are rock music and pop music. So many kinds of music. World music… — Rokia Traore 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
