I've gotten bored with jazz to the point where I wouldn't mind something bad happening. Slapping hurts, but at some point it'll… — Robert Glasper Copy Share Image
From the food to the Mardi Gras Indians to the brass bands and the second liners parading through the street, Jazz Fest… — Trombone Shorty Copy Share Image
Dealing with Jazz at Lincoln Center and its board of directors, who are so great, and then seeing how these Rock Hall… — Steve Miller Copy Share Image
Obviously the music I listened to growing up helped create my musical pallet. My parents were into pop, soul, disco, RNB, Latin,… — Jonas Blue Copy Share Image
Bruges is a beautiful medieval city almost untouched by time. If you like jazz, you will be well catered for. If you… — James Frain Copy Share Image
I tried to download a jazz album this week and ended up getting some tracks four times, some once, some three times;… — Neil Warnock Copy Share Image
Don't believe that jazz about there's nothing you can do, "turn on and drop out, man" - because you've got to turn… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
For me personally - because I do it myself - the scoring of a picture is fun. I edit the picture and… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
Our approach is more the jazz approach, where you learn to play your instrument as well as you can, develop your craft,… — Butch Trucks Copy Share Image
People always ask, "Why jazz?" and I'm like "Why not?" It's kind of like asking Seurat, "Why so many dots?" I imagine… — Melody Gardot Copy Share Image
I think L.A. has one of the most innovative and forward-thinking jazz scenes in the world. New York definitely has the volume… — Kamasi Washington Copy Share Image
My grandma was a church organist for 40 years, and she got me into jazz music and great songwriters, Harold Arlen, George… — Zach Anner 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
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
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
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 never even thought about whether or not they understand what I'm doing . . . the emotional reaction is all that… — John Coltrane 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
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
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
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
Many an American jazz musician has been beguiled by the lush melodies and sumptuous rhythms of Brazilian music, but Peter Sprague has… — Andrew S. Gilbert Copy Share Image
My brothers came home with country, jazz, everything... it was always very normal to me to make any type of music. It… — Labrinth Copy Share Image
One thing that sticks in my mind is that jazz means freedom and openness. It's a music that, although it developed out… — Herbie Hancock Copy Share Image
Whether I do jazz or R&B, there are always complaints. I would just listen to the complaints about what I do instead… — Ledisi 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
