If you plan on continuing a tradition, it might be a good idea to find out just what tradition it is that… — Pat Metheny Copy Share Image
Rejoice at the death and cry at the birth: New Orleans sticks close to the Scriptures. — Jelly Roll Morton Copy Share Image
Are you stalking me, Mr. Fulton?" The idea both amused and horrified Jazz. — Barry Lyga Copy Share Image
The worst thing about the life of a jazz musician on the road is getting to the gig. Once you're there and… — Dave Brubeck Copy Share Image
Our basic audience begins with creaking elderly types of twenty-three and above. — Paul Desmond Copy Share Image
People forget that the same man who did 'Star 80' and 'All that Jazz' also did 'Pardon Me Miss But I've Never… — Ann Reinking Copy Share Image
I fell in love with jazz when I was 12 years old from listening to Duke Ellington and hearing a lot of… — Steve Lacy Copy Share Image
I've been dancing my entire life. Jazz, hip hop, ballet. And then there's tap dancing. I love to tap. — Emily VanCamp Copy Share Image
I think we're an inspiration to young people, to know they can be honest and not run away from influences that are… — Robert Glasper Copy Share Image
Hamp would ask me about tempos in the band: 'Jacquet,' he'd say, 'knock off that tempo.' A lot of jazz musicians didn't… — Illinois Jacquet Copy Share Image
It's really weird how the rock world is quickly becoming like the jazz world. How if you do OK, or get a… — John Rzeznik Copy Share Image
I think we as a band, as individuals, understand that all popular music stems from blues and jazz and even pop, but… — David Johansen Copy Share Image
Jazz is a very democratic musical form. It comes out of a communal experience. We take our respective instruments and collectively create… — Max Roach Copy Share Image
My grandfather was a massive influence in my music. Growing up, he would play a lot of old-school records to me. A… — Ella Henderson Copy Share Image
In high school, I was always into Jerry Lee Lewis, and they decided they needed a piano player for the jazz band.… — Nellie McKay Copy Share Image
It (jazz) isn't like it used to be. The guys aren't together. They're all separated. Individuals now. Bird was a symbol. It… — Charles Mingus Copy Share Image
I don't think I'm modest so much as I'm realistic. I know what I can do and what I can't do. I… — David Sanborn Copy Share Image
The guitar is such an incredible instrument; it plays classical, flamenco, jazz, country, bluegrass, rock, acid, blues. You'll never see a clarinet… — Randy Bachman Copy Share Image
As I became an adult, I listened to a lot of jazz, to the ladies of jazz, Ella Fitzgerald and Carmen McRae… — Lindsay Mendez Copy Share Image
Most of the musicians that I'm playing with now have jazz backgrounds, so they're comfortable with improvisation. And they all know to… — Larkin Grimm Copy Share Image
I don't know why people call me a jazz singer, though I guess people associate me with jazz because I was raised… — Sarah Vaughan Copy Share Image
John [Coltrane] was like a visitor to this planet. He came in peace and he left in peace; but during his time… — Albert Ayler Copy Share Image
Nobody knows where jazz is going, because nobody has ever known where jazz was going. I mean, you couldn't possibly predict the… — Gary Giddins Copy Share Image
“This development signified also that jazz would someday have to contend with the idea of its being an art (since that was… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm really getting to appreciate traditional jazz now - the New Orleans stuff - a lot more than I did before. — John Goodman Copy Share Image
Jazz is the false liquidation of art - instead of utopia becoming reality it disappears from the picture. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's the repetitive thing that brings space. That's one of the things I love secretly about hip-hop. Jazz doesn't have that element.… — Robert Glasper Copy Share Image
I say, play your own way. Don't play what the public want - you play what you want and let the public… — Thelonious Monk Copy Share Image
The way jazz works is that we take a theme, and then we write using the same structure, same chord changes, and… — Tommy Chong Copy Share Image
the beauty of America, neither cool jazz nor devoured Egyptian heroes, lies in lives in the darkness I inhabit in the midst… — Frank O'Hara Copy Share Image
As I got older, I started to do it more and more, and I wanted to learn all of the different types.… — Jillian Hervey Copy Share Image
But if you listen to great piano players, both classical and jazz, theres a huge range of dynamics and colors and emotional… — Gary Burton Copy Share Image
If I wasn't in the entertainment industry at all, I would be a miserable human being serving pancakes at Denny's. I'm also… — Miranda Rae Mayo Copy Share Image
There's a small group of music critics in the States who will forgive you anything - jazz, a long prison term, or… — Andre Previn Copy Share Image
Well, jazz is to me, a complete lifestyle. It's bigger than a word. It's a much bigger force than just something that… — Ray Brown Copy Share Image
The whole gist of 'All That Jazz' is Faustian. It's about a man who sells his soul to show business - which… — Ann Reinking Copy Share Image
Jazz is not the kind of music you are going to learn to play in three or four years or that you… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
The Democrat Party today is not enamored of Bill Clinton. They may not even be enamored of Hillary [Clinton]. But the things… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
As a kid, I would listen to anything that had a live orchestra or ensemble playing, so that covered everything from show… — Michael Giacchino Copy Share Image
If you play the very subtle jazz tunes with acoustic pianos, acoustic bass and it's a dead standard, you are going to… — Lee Ritenour Copy Share Image
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