If we have to put music into baskets, then the progressive rock bands I fell in love with as a teenager made… — Gavin Esler Copy Share Image
For better or for worse, I think my approach to jazz is very traditional, in one sense, but is [also] very out… — Jose James Copy Share Image
If jazz education in our colleges were free to all it would provide thousands of good jobs in the music industry which… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
A lot of the people that I photograph are master musicians themselves, whether they're singers or great jazz players and it's kind… — Carol Friedman Copy Share Image
I don't like to hear someone put down dixieland. Those people who say there's no music but bop are just stupid; it… — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
I grew up with music in the house. I was told I could sing as soon as I started talking. Everybody in… — Tracy Chapman Copy Share Image
And what happened was, it's the same thing an older, more successful writer of ficition might say to a student: write about… — Larry Coryell Copy Share Image
I love jazz because it's so American; you know it's our Only Original Art Form. It just goes against the greed of… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
When I was studying at Berklee, I got the feeling I couldn't play the [guitar] at all, because I could not use… — Gabor Szabo Copy Share Image
If I want to do an orchestral record, if I want to do an acoustic record, if I want to do a… — Steven Wilson Copy Share Image
I feel myself trying to be charming, and then I realize I’m obviously trying to be charming, and then I try to… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
We tried the first evening to go down Division Street and Rush Street, but we couldn't get in anywhere because they didn't… — Judd Nelson Copy Share Image
My grandfather was Bob Shad, one of those legendary jazz and blues producers - he worked with Charlie Parker and Dinah Washington,… — Judd Apatow Copy Share Image
The trouble with most musicians today is that they are copycats. Of course you have to start out playing like someone else.… — Lester Young Copy Share Image
I was in college, but I got kicked out. It was a very free school, but I created a "bad impression." Like… — Steve Winwood Copy Share Image
When I came to New York, to Brooklyn, I met Alvin Ailey and Stanley Crouch and August Wilson. They were always putting… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
The whole thing of being in music is not to control it but to be swept away by it. If you're swept… — Bobby Hutcherson Copy Share Image
The jazz clubs wind up having only rich tourists - the kids can't come. If they do, then they spend their entire… — John Scofield Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, you listened to a certain genre. Now it's like, "I love indie rock, I love hip-hop, jazz,… — Jonathan Rhys Meyers Copy Share Image
The "Highway 61" album [of Bob Dylan] was produced by Bob Johnston if I'm not incorrect. And Bob Johnston was an entirely… — Al Kooper Copy Share Image
After the war, once the bop revolution had taken hold, there were all kinds of young musicians, talented young musicians, who were… — Gunther Schuller Copy Share Image
A lot of young people want to become jazz singers, but there are not more jam sessions like there used to be.… — Dianne Reeves Copy Share Image
Basketball, unlike football with its prescribed routes, is an improvisational game, similar to jazz. If someone drops a note, someone else must… — Phil Jackson Copy Share Image
Charlie Parker was the greatest individual musician that ever lived. Every instrument in the band tried to copy Charlie Parker, and in… — Gary Giddins Copy Share Image
Jazz is not just music, it's a way of life, it's a way of being, a way of thinking. . . .… — Nina Simone Copy Share Image
Jazz and blues fests are everywhere now, and Americana is going strong on college radio. What I'm hearing is an appreciation of… — Bonnie Raitt Copy Share Image
Anytime a person can play the blues, he has a soul and he has a 'lift' to play anything else he wants… — Jimmy Rushing Copy Share Image
In 1908 Handy didn't know anything about the blues and he doesn't know anything about jazz and stomps to this day. I… — Jelly Roll Morton Copy Share Image
It took me twenty years study and practice to work up to what I wanted to play in this performance. How can… — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
I can show you that I have played with just about every jazz musician, every African musician, every blues musician. It's not… — Carlos Santana Copy Share Image
There's no future without the past and anybody who doesn't really understand where jazz has come from has no right to try… — Cannonball Adderley Copy Share Image
I like a very dark house, just black. I sit there and just think. Once I'm still and quiet inside, I'll begin.… — Bobby McFerrin Copy Share Image
I learned jazz; that comes from blues. I learned rock; that comes from blues. I learned pop; that comes from blues. Even… — Cyndi Lauper Copy Share Image
Rip Rig + Panic that I joined, they were really influenced by jazz and blues and punk. So I think what happened… — Neneh Cherry Copy Share Image
The blues. It runs through all American music. Somebody bending the note. The other is the two-beat groove. It's in New Orleans… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
I'd have no trouble being the barbecue kingpin of America. I'd just add it to all the other things I am: jazz… — Bobby Seale Copy Share Image
In the last few years I've been listening to jazz more than anything else. I listen to a lot of world music… — Serj Tankian Copy Share Image
What I would really like to have been, given a perfect world, is a jazz pianist. I mean jazz. I don't mean… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The thing that is making jazz healthy today is that people are coming out of other backgrounds - from rock, folk, from… — Billy Taylor Copy Share Image
We played, jazz, blues, dixie, and it all came from the church. When I went to church, I would see the sisters… — Scatman Crothers Copy Share Image
![“For better or for worse, I think my approach to jazz is very traditional, in one sense, but is [also] very out of fashion today. It's about the musicians, and it's about that magic that happens in the moment.” quote by Jose James](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/893/jose-james-22349_approach_for-better-or-for-worse-i-think-my-appro_2429982.jpg)
![“When I was studying at Berklee, I got the feeling I couldn't play the [guitar] at all, because I could not use my own things as they didn't fit any set pattern. When I joined [Chico Hamilton], he helped me immensely to develop my own style. He never forced me in any set way. At all times, he…” quote by Gabor Szabo](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/1e1/gabor-szabo-80732_all-time_when-i-was-studying-at-berklee-i-got-the_2728626.jpg)
![“We tried the first evening to go down Division Street and Rush Street, but we couldn't get in anywhere because they didn't like [ Emilio Estevez] sneakers and they didn't like my boots. This was 1983 or '84, so it was ridiculous. We ended up at a jazz club, where you go downstairs and there's a…” quote by Judd Nelson](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/864/judd-nelson-4498_boots_we-tried-the-first-evening-to-go-down-di_1520175.jpg)
![“My grandfather was Bob Shad, one of those legendary jazz and blues producers - he worked with Charlie Parker and Dinah Washington, and he produced Janis Joplin's album [1967's Big Brother & the Holding Company]. He always owned small labels as well - he had a label called Mainstream Records in the…” quote by Judd Apatow](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/48c/judd-apatow-1471_albums_my-grandfather-was-bob-shad-one-of-those_2359346.jpg)
![“The "Highway 61" album [of Bob Dylan] was produced by Bob Johnston if I'm not incorrect. And Bob Johnston was an entirely different producer than Tom Wilson. Tom Wilson had produced jazz records and was a Harvard educated.” quote by Al Kooper](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/1c5/al-kooper-27961_albums_the-highway-61-album-of-bob-dylan-was-pr_213868.jpg)
