Well, I guess my unease with that is... I'm always a little uneasy with that phrase - smooth jazz, as opposed to… — David Sanborn Copy Share Image
To most white people, jazz means black and jazz means dirt, and that's not what I play. I play black classical music. — Nina Simone Copy Share Image
the grace is being able to like rock music, symphony music, jazz … anything that contains the original energy of joy. — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
In the sense that I also try to reflect the fullness of the black experience, I’m very much a jazz poet. — Jayne Cortez Copy Share Image
I really enjoy going out with my jazz group. That's something that I don't ever want to stop doing. — Dianne Reeves Copy Share Image
Jazz vision is a wordless conversation between musical notes and visual expressions. — Barbara Januszkiewicz Copy Share Image
Jazz music by its very nature is just a conglomerate of a lot of different kinds of music. — David Sanborn Copy Share Image
I don't think that jazz, as any kind of an art form, has any permanence attached to it, apart from the practitioners… — Norman Granz Copy Share Image
I always dreamt of being in 'Kerrang.' That was my ambition. I read that religiously when I was into heavy metal. Then… — Julian Barratt Copy Share Image
People think jazz music is all standards and the Great American Songbook. But it's really about the sensibility, the feel you bring… — Dianne Reeves Copy Share Image
I love nineties stuff like Alice in Chains and Nine Inch Nails. It'd be my dream to have a Radiohead-themed episode of… — Mark Salling Copy Share Image
I have been steadily exchanging a rock audience who were nervous about what they had just bought for a jazz audience who… — Bill Bruford Copy Share Image
I listen to all types of music. I listen to a lot of hip hop, but I also listen to pop and… — Tobias Harris Copy Share Image
American films are the best films. This is a fact. Cinema is - along with Jazz - the great American art form.… — Ben Dreyfuss Copy Share Image
Kansas City Lightning succeeds as few biographies of jazz musicians have. . . This book is a magnificent achievement; I could hardly… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
There's a wonderful tradition of jazz people getting on stage and jamming and finding some feeling for music with audiences who may… — Al Jarreau Copy Share Image
I lay in that tub on the seventeenth floor of this hotel for-women-only, high up over the jazz and push of New… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
But my dad was a jazz pianist and plays by ear, and all my family are musical. And that bizarrely, is quite… — Rhod Gilbert Copy Share Image
There was a lot that was tricky about playing with [Thelonious Monk]. It's a musical language where there's really no lyrics. It's… — Roy Haynes Copy Share Image
I admire mold-breakers. People that bust free from traditional thinking and change the game completely. Steve Jobs. Charlie Parker (jazz saxophonist). The… — Josh Linkner Copy Share Image
Like, I'm trying to make a statement that clean comedy is somehow better or loftier than dirty comedy, and I don't feel… — Brian Regan Copy Share Image
I was interested in the ways that artists responded to totalitarianism - the Czech Jazz Section, Romanian absurdist theatre, Brecht's alienation effect.… — Nicholas Royle Copy Share Image
I think jazz was just seeking respect and validity because a lot of people didn't believe it was a viable art form,… — Andrew Bird Copy Share Image
There used to be a club in new york called Bradley's - I've never been there, it closed in the 80's -… — Jose James Copy Share Image
A lot of times, jazz musicians try to educate people. What other genre does that? — Robert Glasper Copy Share Image
If he's a true symphony artist, he knows better than that because he knows that the only truly creative musician is the… — Buddy Rich Copy Share Image
Jazz has provided the framework for all the other stuff that I've done. — Lizz Wright Copy Share Image
Free form jazz means absolutely nothing to me. Because there are no boundaries. — Jon Lord Copy Share Image
She's nobody's fool so I'm playing it cool as can be. I'll give it a whirl but I ain't for no girl… — Johnny Mercer Copy Share Image
If you keep your head in the sand, you don't know where the kick's coming from. — Herbie Mann Copy Share Image
Jazz translates the moment into a sense of inspiration for not only the musicians but for the listeners. — Herbie Hancock Copy Share Image
I think jazz and comic books are probably the two uniquely American art forms. — Len Wein Copy Share Image
When you get to the top, don't forget to send the elevator down for the next guy. — Stan Kenton Copy Share Image
There's always this sound out there that's just a little beyond my reach & that just sort of keeps me going. — Bill Frisell Copy Share Image
That's the thing about jazz: it's free flowing, it comes from your soul. — Billy Crystal Copy Share Image
Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music. — Nina Simone Copy Share Image
If you consider film an art form, as some people do, then the Western would be a truly American art form, much… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
I never believed in a set routine. It should depend on how you feel, because you play what you feel. — Buddy Rich Copy Share Image
The jazz records come out a lot. You find that with many musicians - we don't listen to our own music for… — Simon Rattle 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
![“There was a lot that was tricky about playing with [Thelonious Monk]. It's a musical language where there's really no lyrics. It's something you feel and you're hearing. It's like an ongoing conversation. You really had to listen to this guy. Cause he could play the strangest tempos, and they…” quote by Roy Haynes](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/0ee/roy-haynes-43782_arrangements_there-was-a-lot-that-was-tricky-about-pl_1862413.jpg)
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