Jazz scares me. I've witnessed so many incredible singers and jazz musicians. Pop and soul music have always been the things that… — Sam Smith Copy Share Image
Footballers can be like artists when the mind and body are working as one. It is what Miles Davis does when he… — Lilian Thuram Copy Share Image
I liked the more sophisticated urban style of blues like Ray Charles and B. B. King, Bobby Blue Bland, Lou Rawls; people… — Edgar Winter Copy Share Image
I started writing songs when I was 10. It was a natural way to express myself as a kid. It wasn't until… — Kimbra Copy Share Image
I have no illusions about being a genius musician. I pride myself on being a soldier, a warrior for jazz. I trained… — Phil Woods Copy Share Image
I wanna show that gospel, country, blues, rhythm and blues, jazz, rock 'n' roll are all just really one thing. Those are… — Etta James Copy Share Image
I want to make hip-hop that can use guitars and soul and jazz and just fuse it all together. And I want… — Will Ferrell Copy Share Image
“She leaves my side and heads deeper into the apartment singing, “—if the spirit tries to hide, its temple far away… a… — Nathan Reese Maher Copy Share Image
My father was a jazz listener, and I think, at least before I was 5, I was not so into that. Although… — Wallace Shawn Copy Share Image
For guitar players especially, blues is the foundation of rock and roll. You take country music and rock and roll and jazz… — Steve Miller Copy Share Image
I don't regard myself as a great classical or jazz pianist. I like country music, but I'm not a great player. I… — Keith Emerson Copy Share Image
...my little blurb wasn't going to win me any speaker-of-the-year awards, but at least I hadn't tripped and fallen off the stage,… — Jordan Sonnenblick Copy Share Image
The history of jazz for the last 45 years has come through the Monterey Jazz Festival stages. I think there's developed a… — Tim Jackson Copy Share Image
The fact that the jazz and classical worlds seem to struggle with the idea of an artist being both commercially successful and… — Laufey Copy Share Image
I really love Dinah Washington and anything live from her - she had some of the greatest jazz musicians in the whole… — Beth Hart Copy Share Image
Ragtime has about the same amount of respect as comics. And in a way they're similar art forms. Ragtime is highly compositional,… — Chris Ware Copy Share Image
If one takes all the styles in jazz harmonically from the earliest beginnings to the latest experiments, he still has a rather… — Don Ellis Copy Share Image
As I've grown older I've been more influenced by more meandering styles of guitar playing, whether it's Celtic or Ethiopian folk music… — Ted Leo Copy Share Image
You look at somebody like Thurston Moore. Is he a noise dude? A punky dude? Is he a free jazz dude? He's… — Oneohtrix Point Never Copy Share Image
The obsessions of others are opaque to the unobsessed, and thus easy to mock. NASCAR, jazz, baseball, roses, poetry, quilts, fishing. If… — Roberta Smith Copy Share Image
I never liked jazz music because jazz music doesn't resolve. But I was outside the Bagdad Theater in Portland one night when… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
I've been working on something, just some jazz, relaxed stuff. It will be standard, just piano and voice. It started out as… — Justin Guarini Copy Share Image
I despair about the lack of proper respect shown for the piano. If you want it to sound like a traffic jam,… — Oscar Peterson Copy Share Image
It's imperative that I have another channel to pour ideas into, that have been with me for quite a while, that it… — Terence Trent D'Arby Copy Share Image
Electronic musicians are quite like writers or painters. They are quite isolated in their home studios. We often don't have that the… — Jean-Michel Jarre Copy Share Image
Companies have to take risks to get new knowledge, in a manner similar to how jazz musicians take risks when they go… — John Kao Copy Share Image
I started to listen to Japanese jazz musicians when I went to high school. Some people I listened to were Yosuke Yamashita,… — Hiromi Copy Share Image
I can play, and I know it; I'm not looking for any pats on the back. I don't have to be endorsed… — Curtis Fuller Copy Share Image
I once tried to sing jazz for real. But jazz didn't do it for me. You can't have jazz without a jazz… — Jeff Buckley Copy Share Image
I went to Juilliard in New York and used to do cabarets just for fun. Occasionally, I would get together with a… — Nicole Beharie Copy Share Image
There's such a wealth of arts and styles within the guitar... flamenco, jazz, rock, blues... you name it, it's there. In the… — Jimmy Page Copy Share Image
I used to be just a total jazz freak. People used to say, 'Where's the melody? Is there a melody in there… — Glen Campbell Copy Share Image
My first Grammy wasn't even in a jazz category, but of course I was really excited. 'Rockit' was the beginning of kind… — Herbie Hancock Copy Share Image
I'm very much aware in the writing of dialogue, or even in the narrative too, of a rhythm. There has to be… — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
Jazz is very important. It's not something I can put my finger on. When I'm writing at my favorite time, I like… — Miller Williams Copy Share Image
I just love all the music. My grandma was a church organist for 40 years, and she got me into jazz music… — Zach Anner Copy Share Image
“History doesn’t start with a tall building and a card with your name written on it, but jokes do. I think someone… — Nathan Reese Maher Copy Share Image
I am an improviser, ... I improvise music. Whatever you want to call it all, it is all improvised music. I may… — Joe Zawinul Copy Share Image
“Any conversation is a unique jazz performance. Some are more pleasing to the ears, but that is not necessarily a measurement of… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
For me, I just want to sing about life. And since I come from a spiritual background, I turned to jazz, because… — Lizz Wright Copy Share Image
