I was curious and hungry at a young age, and jazz was such a mystery to me, an ocean where you can… — Paula Cole Copy Share Image
I play piano, and I was really, really obsessive about playing piano in high school. I don't know if that's nerdy, but… — Simon Helberg Copy Share Image
I have been influenced by the greatest artists in jazz, pop, reggae, traditional, ballards, pop, and all types of music, taking the… — Laura Pausini Copy Share Image
A jazz musician is not a jazz musician when he or she is eating dinner or when he or she is with… — Herbie Hancock Copy Share Image
It's great to know that our old stuff still sounds good to our fans, just as it's wonderful to think that we've… — Donald Fagen Copy Share Image
[Lee Morgan] was the only young cat that scared me when he played. He had so much fire and natural feeling. I… — Freddie Hubbard Copy Share Image
Well, I think writing is basically about time and rhythm. Like with jazz. You have your basic melody and then you just… — Kathy Acker Copy Share Image
I especially like Duke Ellington jazz, which is a little more... I lived in New York for a while. I lived in… — Charlie Day Copy Share Image
If anybody was Mr. Jazz it was Louis Armstrong. He was the epitome of jazz and always will be. He is what… — Duke Ellington Copy Share Image
One of the most obvious aspects of the music to people who know jazz is: How does it feel in the swing?… — Chuck Israels Copy Share Image
Comedians and jazz musicians have been more comforting and enlightening to me than preachers or politicians or philosophers or poets or painters… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I'd been getting bored with the stereotyped changes (harmonies) that were being used all the time. ... I found that by using… — Charlie Parker Copy Share Image
It was so interesting, when [John Coltrane] created A Love Supreme. He had meditated that week. I almost didn't see him downstairs.… — Alice Coltrane Copy Share Image
“I have sometimes thought that the mere hearing of those songs would do more to impress some minds with the horrible character… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
As far as piano players are concerned, Oscar Peterson is my very favorite. I also like McCoy Tyner. I think that the… — Nina Simone Copy Share Image
The concept of what I want to do as an artist has not changed at all. When I was seven years old,… — Grace Kelly Copy Share Image
My dad would play me all of these records: Miles Davis records, John Coltrane records, Bill Evans records, a lot of jazz… — Eldar Djangirov Copy Share Image
What happens when an art form becomes ambiguous, I think, is that the standards are lowered. You can say anything is jazz.… — Stefon Harris Copy Share Image
The challenge to the improvisor is to get permanence into his spontaneity. The challenge to the composer is to get spontaneity into… — Barry Finnerty Copy Share Image
Not to deny that it is a thinking people's music, but when I listen to music if I ever catch myself thinking,… — Brian Blade Copy Share Image
I was introduced to classical music by my grandparents - my parents were mostly into folk and jazz. Even as a young… — Chris Thile Copy Share Image
There are any number of players with extensive jazz backgrounds who haven't been able to fit into other styles," "It all boils… — Larry Carlton Copy Share Image
Lizzy Parks. Check this out, this is brilliantShe is a fantastic jazz singer definitely one to watch from now on, she’s got… — Jamie Cullum Copy Share Image
Shoes are a big part of your look. I think that if your outfit isn't really something special, then fun footwear is… — Christian Siriano Copy Share Image
I wrote my first two long novels and an anthology of short narratives, when I was a manager of my own jazz… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Man, I just feel so fortunate to be a jazz musician at all. I have a hard time thinking of it any… — Kurt Elling Copy Share Image
I was into jazz even when I was a kid. My parents would play Ella Fitzgerald, George Shearing, and Dixieland music. I… — Page Hamilton Copy Share Image
Ballet Hispanico is a mixture of ethnic, ballet, social, jazz - you name it, it's doing it. The company has been going… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
I thought I was actually doing quite well - I was on Jazz FM six days a week. I fancied going to… — Tony Blackburn Copy Share Image
When I was young and very green, I worte that tune, Sister Kate, and someone said that's fine, let me publish it… — Louis Armstrong Copy Share Image
I'd listened to [Ornette Coleman] all kinds of ways. I listened to him high and I listened to him cold sober. I… — Roy Eldridge Copy Share Image
One of the things that's clear to me from interviews that I've read is that the more popular successful jazz musicians had… — Branford Marsalis Copy Share Image
The old jazz singers or old blues singers, you always just saw them kind of sitting down and singing. They weren't worried… — Lucinda Williams Copy Share Image
“Jazz has a strong following in certain circles and there are annual jazz festivals in Puerto Plata and at Casa de Teatro… — Ginnie Bedggood Copy Share Image
Jazz in itself is not struggling. That is, the music itself is not struggling... It's the attitude that's in trouble. My plays… — August Wilson Copy Share Image
'Star Trek' scared me a lot more than 'White Jazz.' It terrified me, really. Because of the scale, the responsibility, the fact… — Chris Pine Copy Share Image
I've been saying for almost 20 years that I need to do a jazz project and it ought to be either big… — Al Jarreau Copy Share Image
Oh, I was a real Nirvana kid. I got into jazz because I listened to a lot of metal, Megadeth and that,… — Jamie Cullum Copy Share Image
The symphonic orchestras have sponsors, people who give them endowments, and I think it should be the same way with jazz -… — Lee Morgan Copy Share Image
There are singers that I have enjoyed, from Nina Simone and Ray Charles onward. But the music that made music the number… — Robert Wyatt Copy Share Image
![“[Lee Morgan] was the only young cat that scared me when he played. He had so much fire and natural feeling. I had more technique, but he had that feeling. People seemed to like him more than they like me at the beginning.” quote by Freddie Hubbard](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/cb3/freddie-hubbard-25585_cat_lee-morgan-was-the-only-young-cat-that-s_2176002.png)
![“It was so interesting, when [John Coltrane] created A Love Supreme. He had meditated that week. I almost didn't see him downstairs. And it was so quiet! There was no sound, no practice! He was up there meditating, and when he came down he said, "I have a whole new music!" He said, "There is a new…” quote by Alice Coltrane](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/742/alice-coltrane-25252_beautiful_it-was-so-interesting-when-john-coltrane_1177734.jpg)
![“I'd listened to [Ornette Coleman] all kinds of ways. I listened to him high and I listened to him cold sober. I even played with him. I think he's jiving baby.” quote by Roy Eldridge](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/4f4/roy-eldridge-72700_all-kinds_i-d-listened-to-ornette-coleman-all-kind_2219414.jpg)
