The wonderful thing about Jazz is its willingness to take chances. — Madeleine Peyroux Copy Share Image
I don't like heroin, unless you're a jazz musician and then you have to be on it because jazz is the sound… — John Waters Copy Share Image
...to me if it's anything, jazz is a verb-it's more like a process than it is a thing. — Pat Metheny Copy Share Image
I like seeing someone that can sing jazz and then flip over and sing a pop song and then sing a rock… — Sara Bareilles Copy Share Image
Eclecticism is the word. Like a jazz musician who creates his own style out of the styles around him, I play by… — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
“These babies ain’t just guitars; these babies are living, breathing instruments.” — Brenda Sutton Rose Copy Share Image
Jazz flute's funny. And I'm a big Latin music fan, Tito Puente, Tina Cruz, all that stuff. — Genndy Tartakovsky Copy Share Image
Jazz is neither specific repertoire, nor academic exercise... but a way of life. — Lester Bowie Copy Share Image
Music is what we need when language fails us, but we cannot remain silent. — Cornel West Copy Share Image
I'm a country musician. I know how to play jazz, and I can play rock. But I've had to fight my entire… — Brad Paisley Copy Share Image
I also thought of playing improvisational jazz and I did take lessons for a while. At first I tried to write fiction… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
A jazz musician can improvise based on his knowledge of music. He understands how things go together. For a chef, once you… — Charlie Trotter Copy Share Image
Ella knows her way around her voice as very few people today. But there are times when she seems to be unaware… — Ella Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Understanding is the least important thing when it comes to digging jazzbecause, like anything else, jazz is a form of entertainment. It… — Cannonball Adderley Copy Share Image
I ... started out to become a jazz pianist; in the meantime I started singing and I sang the way I felt… — Nat King Cole Copy Share Image
I wanted to put jazz on the record, all the loves of music that I had on the record, so I could… — Brian McKnight Copy Share Image
[Sweets Edison] was one of the greatest stylists in Jazz of all time. And on top of that, when you listen to… — Clark Terry Copy Share Image
I just saw a recent television program about art, and it was saying how from the end of the Second World War,… — Robert Wyatt Copy Share Image
When I start to think about all the things, I'm doing sometimes I just have to thank the man upstairs. Because I'm… — Ramsey Lewis Copy Share Image
When I was young, I never bought records because my brother Joseph played saxophone and had a record player. I loved listening… — Miriam Makeba Copy Share Image
His musical inspiration operates in a world uncluttered by conventional bar lines, conventional chord changes, and conventional ways of blowing or fingering… — Gunther Schuller Copy Share Image
For the moment, the jazz is playing; there is no melody, just notes, a myriad tiny tremors. The notes know no rest,… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Comedy is the drug, when they laugh it's like I'm a jazz musician and they hear it, and they get it. It's… — Alonzo Bodden Copy Share Image
I was an absolute idiot, wearing polo-necks, reading Kerouac, watching Woody Allen movies, and jazz fitted right into all of that. My… — Jamie Cullum Copy Share Image
Jazz music, as is also the case with the old down-home spirituals, gospel and jubilee songs, jumps, shouts and moans, is essentially… — Albert Murray Copy Share Image
![“[Sweets Edison] was one of the greatest stylists in Jazz of all time. And on top of that, when you listen to him, you say 'yes, that's Sweets' and you automatically smile. This is really unique. He changed the way how to play this instrument.” quote by Clark Terry](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/350/clark-terry-45807_all-time_sweets-edison-was-one-of-the-greatest-st_583353.jpg)
