You know, Equal Interest played at the Bell Atlantic Jazz Festival Awards and not one musician from that category was even thought… — Joseph Jarman Copy Share Image
What isn’t on my iPod playlist? I have very eclectic tastes. Jazz. Classic Rock. Hip Hop. Ska. Soul. Electronica.World Music. Funk. Blues.… — Michele Norris Copy Share Image
We've now got a whole generation of jazz musicians who have been brought up with hip-hop. We've grown up alongside rappers and… — Kamasi Washington Copy Share Image
Jazz was the beginning of rhythm music, which developed into rock and roll. But what the jazz musicians lost because they were… — Fela Kuti Copy Share Image
Trane was the perfect saxophonist for Monk's music because of the space that Monk always used. Trane could fill up all that… — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
When you are busy with all the live shows and bands, world music and jazz music, it takes time to come back… — Shankar Mahadevan Copy Share Image
There's such a cynicism about the phrase 'I laughed all the way to the bank.' It's as though money is what you're… — Artie Shaw Copy Share Image
When jazz is played in another nation, it is called American. When it is played in another country, it sounds false. Jazz… — George Gershwin Copy Share Image
Reading was like an addiction; I read while I ate, on the train, in bed until late at night, in school, where… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Almost immediately after jazz musicians arrived in Paris, they began to gather in two of the city’s most important creative neighborhoods: Montmartre… — Jeffrey H. Jackson Copy Share Image
“I started going to jazz clubs in New York when I was twelve or thirteen, first with my older cousins Mike and… — Donald Fagen Copy Share Image
Recording in Nashville was absolutely essential to get the sound, the musicians, the atmosphere, the warmth... There are just cult places like… — Roch Voisine Copy Share Image
Something special can happen late at night in a jazz club. As the crowd thins, the musicians intuitively sense that those few… — Patricia Barber Copy Share Image
I believe in knowing all you can about the music and the people who made the music. I think it's much more… — Sonny Sharrock Copy Share Image
There is something beautiful about a billion stars held steady by a God who knows what He is doing. (They hang there,… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
I visited New York in '63, intending to move there, but I noticed that what I valued about jazz was being discarded.… — Joe Sample Copy Share Image
If you ever saw All That Jazz [1979], Bob Fosse was kind of raised dancing in strip joints and the whole era… — David Copperfield Copy Share Image
If you don't already know about jazz music, how would you be exposed? How would get an opportunity to find out if… — Esperanza Spalding Copy Share Image
Jazz told people about the special music that came out of America and about America in general and this kind of liberty… — Al Jarreau Copy Share Image
You've got to learn your instrument. Then, you practice, practice, practice. And then, when you finally get up there on the bandstand,… — Charlie Parker Copy Share Image
Writing is a question of finding a certain rhythm. I compare it to the rhythms of jazz. Much of the time life… — Francoise Sagan Copy Share Image
I'm a dancer, so I do four hours of dance a week of ballet, jazz, hip hop, contemporary. I also play the… — Ryan Newman Copy Share Image
Montreal was a very active jazz center until club owners started putting in strippers instead of music. Before long, there was nothing… — Oscar Peterson Copy Share Image
Jazz is not about getting and playing whatever notes you want. It is about reworking themes in a manner that sounds good,… — John Kao Copy Share Image
I have discovered three things which know no geographical borders - classical music, American jazz, and applause as the sign of the… — Jascha Heifetz Copy Share Image
People behind the Iron curtain have such an incredible image of America and jazz. I expected to find a Gerry Mulligan or… — Gabor Szabo Copy Share Image
I'd love to give my girls a traditional Thanksgiving with turkey and all that jazz, but we've raised them to love Tuscan… — Debi Mazar Copy Share Image
Louis Armstrong is the master of the jazz solo. He became the beacon, the light in the tower, that helped the rest… — Ellis Marsalis, Jr Copy Share Image
I never started out as an R&B singer. I grew up on all types of music - jazz, rock, pop, country, folk… — Fantasia Barrino Copy Share Image
I'm too busy playing. When I'm playing I don't pay attention to who's listening. When I was listening I listened to symphony… — Charles Mingus Copy Share Image
It was a particularly interesting and exciting time, and the European political and artistic establishment was turned on by the Civil Rights… — Archie Shepp Copy Share Image
If you play jazz, then you play with your fingers. If you're playing rock, you use a pick. There's really no rhyme… — Kevin Eubanks Copy Share Image
It's easy to mock a man who has founded a religion based on John Coltrane, who considers 'A Love Supreme,' whatever its… — Tucker Carlson Copy Share Image
I'm not a one-stop music shop with jazz improv in aisle 3 and country and western in aisle 4. I have a… — Charlie Clouser Copy Share Image
Well, I had started a program which is even longer running than this one in 1967 which was a jazz program called… — Humphrey Lyttelton Copy Share Image
Jazz exemplifies artistic activity that is at once individual and communal, performance that is both repetitive and innovative, each participant sometimes providing… — Mary Catherine Bateson Copy Share Image
I've always listened to jazz or folk or blues. I was always listening to the prophets. I don't really go for...I don't… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
Tommy Dorsey was the last of the band leaders... He was ahead of his time; if he got drunk, he got difficult,… — Dick Haymes Copy Share Image
This is jazz, this is funk, this is soul, this is gospel This is sanctified sick, this is player Pentecostal. This is… — Killer Mike Copy Share Image
The people at Jazz at Lincoln Center are an amazing group and have done a phenomenal job teaching kids and audiences of… — Steve Miller Copy Share Image
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