Taxi drivers used to ask me what kind of music I did, and I'd say, 'Well, it's kind of jazz, soul, classical'… — Laura Mvula Copy Share Image
The one thing that I've learned is that people don't change. Each new generation has the same stuff that the last one… — Christian Scott Copy Share Image
My life has always been my music, it's always come first, but the music ain't worth nothing if you can't lay it… — Louis Armstrong Copy Share Image
I've played drums since I was 15. My sisters and I all played instruments. I kind of started with piano and then… — Miles Teller Copy Share Image
Here's our shtick line to describe our music: It's our garage band attempt at our appreciation of jazz improvisation through the reality… — John Popper Copy Share Image
I never wanted to be a part of planet Earth, but I am compelled to be here, so anything I do for… — Sun Ra Copy Share Image
I was 16 years old, and I was just flailing around, looking for an interest. I heard, you know, these jazz records.… — Harvey Pekar Copy Share Image
I don't outline. I sit down to write, and I take the ride. If something starts to not feel right, I go… — Taylor Sheridan Copy Share Image
I was sometimes doing DJ stuff and working in a record shop in Tokyo. That place was a very unique shop. It… — Miho Hatori Copy Share Image
I used to sing with my father's jazz band and then when I was ten years old a musician friend of his… — Molly Ringwald Copy Share Image
Brubeck, for instance, is not careless. He's a studied guy. And even if his picture ends up on the back cover of… — Eddie Condon Copy Share Image
This is positively not an album to play while you do a doctorate thesis on "Bergson, Webern and Charles the Vicious, Paradox… — Bob Brookmeyer Copy Share Image
Europeans really provided many venues over there and hailed the jazz artists, and a lot of musicians went over there and stayed… — Sonny Rollins Copy Share Image
As a drumset player I look outside the typical canon of drums - jazz and rock. When I hear something like the… — Glenn Kotche Copy Share Image
It's also crazy how Shakespeare has that cadence, and it's about locking into the jazz of the language, just like locking into… — Corey Hawkins Copy Share Image
I always hated jazz guitar. I loved jazz saxophone but I hated jazz guitar. If I would buy an organ trio record… — Tom Verlaine Copy Share Image
“Jazz tells Lucy to relax and tries to kick her under the table. I know this because she kicks me instead. "Aim… — Cath Crowley Copy Share Image
I'd been studying philosophy at the University of Chicago. I hadn't been doing well, because I was sitting in with jazz musicians… — Kurt Elling Copy Share Image
I never had much interest in the piano until I realized that every time I played, a girl would appear on the… — Duke Ellington Copy Share Image
I don't play the traditional Charlie Parker songs. But I do improvise and I do create with my instrument, and that to… — Kenny G Copy Share Image
It ["Begin the Beguine"] became such a hit that it superseded anything that any band had ever had. It was the first… — Artie Shaw Copy Share Image
I just got to hear every note. After I left Birdland, I started working at the Jazz Gallery. In the end, I… — Carla Bley Copy Share Image
A short story relies on those values that make poetry and jazz what they are: tension, rhythms, inner beat, into unforeseen within… — Julio Cortazar Copy Share Image
In Jazz, improvisation isn't a matter of just making any ol' thing up. Jazz, like any language, has its own grammer and… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
I think when you love music, you love a lot of it. Now when it comes to jazz, it's very much in… — Charles Lloyd Copy Share Image
There were so many specific things from high school jazz band that I remembered: the conductor searching out people who were out… — Damien Chazelle Copy Share Image
For me, I listened to a lot of female jazz artists. And of course, the Motown and Philly sounds, all that stuff… — Philip Bailey Copy Share Image
My big influences are Joni Mitchell, and a lot of classical and Indian music, as well as Nina Simone and the personal… — Yael Naim Copy Share Image
I already experimented with free jazz in the 1960s and, in my opinion, to play free jazz, you have to be a… — John McLaughlin Copy Share Image
There were a lot of different styles in the house - Motown, Led Zeppelin, Rolling Stones, jazz - and my dad played… — Robert Trujillo Copy Share Image
I find Indian music very funky. I mean it's very soulful, with their own kind of blues. But it's the only other… — John McLaughlin Copy Share Image
I was serious about ballet for a long time, but my mom got me into tap and jazz and modern and hip-hop,… — Greta Gerwig Copy Share Image
I went to North Texas State, one of the great jazz schools. When I realized I wasn't going to be Miles Davis,… — Peter Weller Copy Share Image
If there had never been the Great Migration there would never have been jazz, there would never have been Michelle Obama. A… — Ayana Mathis Copy Share Image
I always tell people that, just to be a bad jazz musician, you have to be better than most musicians. The worst… — Robert Glasper Copy Share Image
I would say I'm an outlier. Nobody in my family does anything creative, though my dad loved jazz and my mum likes… — Arlo Parks Copy Share Image
I still go out, but not a lot. If I go to see music, it's usually to the Blue Note, jazz clubs,… — Jonathan Demme Copy Share Image
At this point we've answered about every question you could possibly imagine about Deep Space Nine, so we do this thing called… — Rene Auberjonois Copy Share Image
Back in the day, being a young, inspired bass player, I started to gravitate toward jazz fusion. I almost would have called… — Robert Trujillo Copy Share Image
I went to school for engineering, I studied jazz. So I always had this kind of creative side and technical side, and… — Joseph Kosinski Copy Share Image
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