When the subsidies are going out there to fund arts, I'd like to see jazz given a better shake of the dice.… — Sebastian Coe Copy Share Image
When I was in college, I had a jazz radio show. I called it 'Excursion on a Wobbly Rail,' after a Cecil… — Lou Reed Copy Share Image
Make no mistake, this music is for everyone. Jazz is not an exclusive, elite club. Go ahead, listen to your Snoop Doggy… — Christian McBride Copy Share Image
It falls in all the cracks, from classical music to jazz,. Anywhere there's a hole in the floor, my music falls through… — Allan Holdsworth Copy Share Image
One of the reasons I believe in jazz is that the oneness of man can come through the rhythm of your heart.… — Dave Brubeck Copy Share Image
Jazz came out of New Orleans, and that was the forerunner of everything. You mix jazz with European rhythms, and that's rock… — The Edge Copy Share Image
When I was 12, I was doing competitive jazz, tap and ballet in Michigan. The studio put the best dancers together, and… — Jillian Rose Reed Copy Share Image
The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician. Things like old folks singing in the moonlight in the back… — Louis Armstrong Copy Share Image
What I love about Sonny's playing is that he is so inventive within the mainstream Jazz vernacular. Because he knows so many… — Pete La Roca Copy Share Image
[Charlie Parker] was kind of a sponge and intrigued by it all.That's similar to what Phil [Woods] told me about Bird, too.… — Jon Gordon Copy Share Image
The virtuoso element in jazz playing, all those very fast runs in the upper extremes, simply doesn't appeal to me. That's why… — Gavin Bryars Copy Share Image
I was being ridiculed for going to school... But, you see, I had looked hard at the other musicians and the whole… — Donald Byrd Copy Share Image
Put it this way: Jazz is a good barometer of freedom... In its beginnings, the United States of America spawned certain ideals… — Duke Ellington Copy Share Image
I have to admit that more and more lately, the whole idea of jazz as an idiom is one that I've completely… — Pat Metheny Copy Share Image
“Billie Holiday Her imperfect life led to her becoming a legendary performer with a continuing influence on American music. Born Eleanora Fagan… — Captain Hank Bracker, "Seawater One Copy Share Image
Some of the old folk singers used to phrase things in an interesting way, and then, I got my style from seeing… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
There were a lot of R&B groups that were my heroes, but the funny thing about my career and the way it… — Frankie Valli Copy Share Image
Now, the instrumentation in the jazz band and the jazz dance band has gone through many evolutions. For instance, in the 'twenties… — Gerry Mulligan Copy Share Image
The tapes we were making would jump around with different styles, just quick parts of different songs. Hip-hop to jazz to funk… — Ad-Rock Copy Share Image
New Age is a very small box. It was a term that was brought in by the music industry to classify music… — Yanni Copy Share Image
Cicadas, buckling and unbuckling their stomach muscles, yield the sound of someone sharpening scissors. Fall field crickets, the thermometer hounds, add high-pitched… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
I was in a rock band; I was my own folk singer; I was in a death metal band for a very… — Kiesza Copy Share Image
Funk could very easily be called jazz, but you call it funk. Does that really matter? People dig that they associate themselves… — Kamasi Washington Copy Share Image
We had common interests in the beauty of the French language. We both had a tremendous love of jazz. We shared dreams… — David Amram Copy Share Image
I hate the bloody highways. I hate hamburgers, I hate Greyhound buses. I'd have liked to have been in America during the… — Shane MacGowan Copy Share Image
When comedy is good, it's jazz. The beats of it, the looseness, the improvisational part, the music-the way you hit the inflection,… — Billy Crystal Copy Share Image
Many fail to realize this great recording industry was built by so-called jazz artists. And at the other end of the spectrum,… — Ahmad Jamal Copy Share Image
As a little girl, I remember thinking how great it was going to be, to be a musician when I grew up,… — Lari White Copy Share Image
I was pretty much prepared because I was already playing in extremely good ways when I arrived from Europe because I played… — Miroslav Vitous 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
I never even thought about whether or not they understand what I'm doing . . . the emotional reaction is all that… — John Coltrane Copy Share Image
The type of band that I have now, the type of music that we're playing you either like it or you dislike… — Chico Hamilton Copy Share Image
I was really a nerd, and I was really more of a jazz nerd. So when I had my chance to put… — Robert Glasper Copy Share Image
He sounded to me like he's supposed to be the savior of jazz. Sometimes people speak as though someone asked them a… — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
So, you know, there are a lot of the biggest records of the year. There's great music in hip-hop and jazz and,… — Stephen W. Thompson Copy Share Image
I'm saddened to see that everyone's pitched out the baby with the bath, in that we say that it can't be one… — Don Bluth Copy Share Image
Guitars, there was rock 'n' roll. Saxophone, jazz. Now we have the computer and there's this electronic thing happening in music that… — Tim Commerford Copy Share Image
I was raised on jazz. My father, from the time I was born, used to get up early on Saturdays and Sundays… — Brian Stokes Mitchell Copy Share Image
Certainly one of the more common experiences in the jazz field is discovering someone new. Improvising musicians are capable of being musical… — Gary Burton Copy Share Image
It doesn't matter if I ever win another award or get to play another major jazz festival in America. I would rather… — Christian Scott Copy Share Image
![“[Charlie Parker] was kind of a sponge and intrigued by it all.That's similar to what Phil [Woods] told me about Bird, too. Like he was into cooking. He was just into a lot of things. Yeah, it's about dealing with bebop and jazz and Trane [John Coltrain] and post-Trane and knowing the history. But…” quote by Jon Gordon](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/a35/jon-gordon-1655_art_charlie-parker-was-kind-of-a-sponge-and_2500883.png)
