I dabble in the jazz world, which is male-dominated. If you had two women playing together, it became a shtick. It becomes… — Meshell Ndegeocello Copy Share Image
I had a very thorough grounding in music; I'd grown up around songs. My parents listened to a lot of music. My… — Laura Mvula Copy Share Image
Communication is the essential medium of a creative culture: the communal sea in which we all swim. A company that can't communicate… — John Kao Copy Share Image
Sometimes there are no gigs, but the main thing is the music. You can't take that away. The only person who can… — Mike Stern Copy Share Image
During our first meeting, Tony Iommi was a great jazz guitarist, his capabilities cover all styles - Black Sabbath has even narrowed… — Geezer Butler Copy Share Image
I'm playing jazz throughout the song 'Black Sabbath.' That's what it is there. I mean, I'm moving some other things around, but… — Bill Ward Copy Share Image
See, in the rock bands and stuff I was in, I'd always been a fairly animated performer, but when I played jazz,… — Jamie Cullum Copy Share Image
I was always very leery of my piano playing. As a young kid, I wanted to be a jazz musician, but my… — Mike Stoller Copy Share Image
Remember that a book is many drafts - mine certainly are. It's improvisation. It's as much jazz and the way we talk… — John Edgar Wideman Copy Share Image
The only type of music I don't like is Dixieland jazz. It's just a little too happy and noisy for me. I… — Rick Moranis Copy Share Image
I listened to classical guitar and Spanish guitar, as well as jazz guitar players, rock and roll and blues. All of it.… — Boz Scaggs Copy Share Image
Jazz I regard as an American folk music; not the only one, but a very powerful one which is probably in the… — George Gershwin Copy Share Image
I like contemporary American literature and I like biographies and I like jazz and I like baseball and I like writers who… — Jonathan Frakes Copy Share Image
I like to mix and match things so I'm infusing a little bit of jazz, a little bit of classical, a little… — Gino Vannelli Copy Share Image
It's something that - jazz is one of the few things that you can go and listen to, I don't care where… — Billy Higgins Copy Share Image
I did everything I could to not bring in any of the - any of the technical things I got from classical… — Cecile McLorin Salvant Copy Share Image
Jazz is like a big secret club. The mainstream media doesn't pay any attention to it, it's like 1 percent of the… — Robert Glasper Copy Share Image
I think 'Horace Silver' was actually the first live jazz group I ever heard back when I was a kid in St.… — David Sanborn Copy Share Image
Milton, of all people, gave the most perfect definition of the state of mind required to play jazz: ' with wanton heed… — Paul Desmond 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
Actually John, Paul Rutherford, and Trevor Watts, and several other rather well known English jazz musicians had got their training by joining… — Evan Parker Copy Share Image
It's much easier for me to say that, the kind of music I didn't listen to was pretty much that. I mean… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
The economic picture in the States today doesn't allow for jazz concerts in a tour fashion. People now are too used to… — Norman Granz Copy Share Image
I grew up watching American films, listening to American music, and it's a big contribution to the rest of the world. I… — Wagner Moura Copy Share Image
Dabbling in music and being in music when I was young I had my own view of what I thought music was… — Rakim Copy Share Image
When I first played some Coltrane-type stuff on the 'Pimp a Butterfly' sessions, Kendrick got it immediately. 'I want it to sound… — Kamasi Washington Copy Share Image
That's what I tell my students at California Institute of the Arts where I taught for 27 years. I taught them if… — Charlie Haden Copy Share Image
If you met my dad, I think a lot of things would be put to rest. Because my pops is a pretty… — Eric San Copy Share Image
The most ironic thing is my grandfather has his masters in music composition; he was a jazz composer. My dad was a… — Travis Scott Copy Share Image
I grew up listening to John Coltrane and jazz, so they were subtle influences. I sometimes think about doing some kind of… — Kim Gordon Copy Share Image
There's a richness to the old works if you look before the 1950s. The chord progressions and the language was more complicated,… — Tori Amos Copy Share Image
When I was very young, there was a lot of music at home, mostly jazz. I was walking around singing and pretending… — Nile Rodgers Copy Share Image
I felt quite frankly having been raised during the depression and looking back at the roaring twenties, the jazz age, which was… — Hugh Hefner Copy Share Image
Music is the shorthand of emotion. Emotions, which let themselves be described in words with such difficulty, are directly conveyed to man… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
There's been this perception that Europeans still hold on to, that they discover the real talented ones in American culture and give… — Andrew Bird Copy Share Image
I like soul, I like rock, I like new wave, I like punk music, I like blues, I like jazz, and I… — DJ Premier Copy Share Image
I have very eclectic taste in music. I like everything from Nirvana, which is featured in the film, to world music, to… — Isla Fisher Copy Share Image
I think that people should learn about that. In most music, there's one way that you do something, and that's the only… — Billy Higgins Copy Share Image
Judy Garland was the singer I most wanted to sound like then, not to copy, but to get some of her soul… — Sarah Vaughan Copy Share Image
Trombone virtuoso and innovative composer, Papo combines the best of jazz and Latin music to create a genre that is unique and… — Michael Brecker Copy Share Image
