Anyone who understands Jazz knows that you can't understand it. It's too complicated. That's what's so simple about it. — Yogi Berra Copy Share Image
Some people think I'm a rock 'n' roll musician and some think I'm a jazz musician but, for me, there is no… — Georgie Fame Copy Share Image
I grew up in a jazz household. They made me listen to jazz before I could hear my Motown. — Jeffrey Osborne Copy Share Image
Sometimes when we're flying or in the hotel, I might run over songs, or in the bathroom. — Ella Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I came from an era when we didn't use electronic instruments. The bass wasn't even amplified. The sound was the sound you… — Stan Getz Copy Share Image
“Do not even suggest jazz. I saw Newsies and was traumatized for, like, five years.” — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
Great music - say jazz - has that inventive, improvisational quality that tells us something about life. — Kevin Young Copy Share Image
I'm not going to play funk licks on a jazz album. That makes no sense. — Branford Marsalis Copy Share Image
I know that composers know my voice type and what songs will suit me. I have been able to mould my voice… — Javed Ali Copy Share Image
“That’s a stupid name! Whirly-gig is much better, I think. Who in their right mind would point at this thing and say,… — Nathan Reese Maher Copy Share Image
I don't know what anybody else in the world would want to thank America for, but man, it [jazz] works. What I… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I continued studying by myself in the field of jazz with my own technique of improvisation, walking bass lines, rhythms, all kinds… — Miroslav Vitous Copy Share Image
You always come back to Duke Ellington - he's kind of like the thread that holds everything together from the big band… — Herbert Copy Share Image
Jazz vision is the fusion of music and art a real paradox of same-yet different. Here we play in exchanges, like the… — Barbara Januszkiewicz Copy Share Image
I did listen to 1920s jazz or Al Johnson and a lot of early singers coming out of England. I would branch… — Ed Speleers Copy Share Image
To me, 'Blue Like Jazz' is a quintessential American story. So many people are just like Don - raised Christian and go… — Marshall Allman Copy Share Image
I grew up listening to Switchfoot. I love Switchfoot; they're a great band. John Foreman is awesome. I really dig mainstream pop… — Shane Harper Copy Share Image
There's something beautifully friendly and elevating about a bunch of guys playing music together. This wonderful little world that is unassailable. It's… — Keith Richards Copy Share Image
Of course when you are a kid you listen to what your parents had around. A lot of gospel, jazz. Now when… — Jorma Kaukonen Copy Share Image
For me, let's keep jazz as folk music. Let's not make jazz classical music. Let's keep it as street music, as people's… — Pat Metheny Copy Share Image
I've always loved black culture; I don't know any other way to put it. Since I was a kid I loved music… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
The hardest thing about being a young musician on the jazz scene is that there are so many styles of music, jazz… — Dave Kikoski Copy Share Image
Jazz is not a game of chance. Its sonorous disorder is only an appearance. It is an organized force obeying obscure laws,… — Wanda Landowska Copy Share Image
Jazz is really about the human experience. It’s about the ability of human beings to take the worst of circumstances and struggles… — Herbie Hancock Copy Share Image
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