I used to do a lot of apologizing for what the State Department had done. — Dizzy Gillespie Copy Share Image
Jazz musicians are the coolest people on the planet. Can I have some cool? — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
In 1994, I started touring again and I recorded two albums for Chesky Jazz. — Chuck Mangione Copy Share Image
I would love to make a real jazz album someday because I never have. But that's something I'm not in a rush… — Norah Jones Copy Share Image
When Jazz broke through in England, I remember sneaking to listen on the radio much to my parent's disapproval. — Jeff Beck Copy Share Image
When I discovered Mose Allison I felt I had discovered the missing link between jazz and blues — Ray Davies Copy Share Image
The most important thing I look for in a musician is whether he knows how to listen. — Duke Ellington Copy Share Image
Kenny Burrell is overall the greatest guitarist in the world and he's my favorite. — B. B. King Copy Share Image
I want a church service with New Orleans funeral jazz music. I'd like people to say a few words about me and… — Paul Young Copy Share Image
Jazz celebrates older generations and not just the youth movement. When you 'sell' only to people of a certain age, you get… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
The most important thing about Jazz at Lincoln Center is the fact that it's the first time that perhaps the most important… — Rafael Vinoly Copy Share Image
Jazz music is as American as it gets, and so is the U.S. Postal Service. A Miles Davis stamp is a perfect… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
Sometimes I practice to Allan Holdsworth or John McLaughlin, but I don't just practice to jazz and jazz-fusion albums. I'll practice to… — Thundercat Copy Share Image
This all came of a conversation I had with [John] Steinbeck once when we were standing in a men's room somewhere. Steinbeck… — Eddie Condon Copy Share Image
I suppose subconsciously I was thinking in terms of having the scale of it matching the scale of the images. Hence the… — Jonny Greenwood Copy Share Image
As a jazz musician, you have individual power to create the sound. You also have a responsibility to function in the context… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
“Came Honker's trip to Slice City along about then: our sax-man got a neck all full of the sharpest kind of steel.… — Charles Beaumont Copy Share Image
Taxi drivers used to ask me what kind of music I did and I'd say, well, it's kind of jazz, soul, classical… — Laura Mvula Copy Share Image
Certain music, jazz in particular, has the ability to make you a better citizen of the world. It helps you expand your… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
I'm not a jazz artist. Don't get me wrong now, it's all music to me. I just played music and if it's… — Pharoah Sanders Copy Share Image
...I got a call from a record company offering me a contract, I did not want to take it because the Lord… — Alice Coltrane Copy Share Image
In the States, this type of jam-band phenomena has opened it up for groups to improvise, admittedly more in the groove area,… — John Scofield Copy Share Image
As for what I look for, I don't know any other way to put it, but I look for truth, and honesty,… — Trevante Rhodes Copy Share Image
Many jazz musicians affect a misunderstood-genius air when they play, which alienates the audience and breaks down the communications of the music.… — Gabor Szabo Copy Share Image
My music isn't anything but me. It has jazz in it, and rock'n'roll, and it has an urgency to it. — Neil Young Copy Share Image
It seems that jazz is more cerebral and more mathematical in a sense. — Rita Coolidge Copy Share Image
There's more bad music in jazz than any other form. Maybe that's because the audience doesn't really know what's happening. — Pat Metheny Copy Share Image
I love jazz and blues, where there's a structure, but a lot of the cool stuff is veering off the page and… — Nick Nurse Copy Share Image
As far as I'm concerned, the essentials of jazz are: melodic improvisation, melodic invention, swing, and instrumental personality. — Mose Allison Copy Share Image
People said I'd never make 35, then I'd never make 40, 45; now I'm almost 50, so Im beginning to think maybe they might be wrong. — Chet Baker Copy Share Image
I am viewed as the Negro who has gone outside of the categories assigned to me. — Anthony Braxton Copy Share Image
Jazz is such a living art form. It happens right in the moment. You weave a story by changing certain elements and… — Dianne Reeves Copy Share Image
I never really liked poetry readings; I liked to read poetry by myself, but I liked singing, chanting my lyrics to this… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
I feel that I have an obligation to jazz and also to myself to play as good as I can play. — Sonny Rollins Copy Share Image
The people in Japan know more about the history of jazz and the musicians than the people in the United States do. — Billy Higgins Copy Share Image
I wasn't very aware of pop music because I attended an arts school. For me, it was all about jazz. — Norah Jones Copy Share Image
“A spiritual journey is becoming what one has always meant to be-come and always was. One with God's Spirit.” — Jazz Feylynn Copy Share Image
My mother sang jazz and opera - she even performed at the Apollo on Amateur Night. — Rakim Copy Share Image
I was exposed to jazz and blues and gospel and country music and rock, and I was the only kid I knew… — Steve Miller Copy Share Image
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