Jazz is not the popular culture. Jazz is in the same position in our culture as classical music. A very small minority… — John Corigliano 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
Nobody would know it to look at me, but the movies I liked as a kid were musicals - 'All That Jazz,'… — Juliette Lewis Copy Share Image
People sometimes forget that jazz was built not only in the minds of the great ones but on the backs of the… — Cab Calloway Copy Share Image
I think that's what really a substantial work is, it's forever. It's the truth now and it was the truth then, and… — Abbey Lincoln Copy Share Image
[Miles Davis] learned from everyone. He was incredible. He took the best from everyone and threw away the rest. He was brilliant.… — Helen Merrill Copy Share Image
The qualities in music which I considered most important - and still do - were beauty, simplicity, originality, discrimination, and sincerity. — Paul Desmond Copy Share Image
I hate the idea of turning jazz into homework assignments. I would never have a quiz saying, "Who's the clarinetist on the… — Gary Giddins Copy Share Image
Do you think Duke Ellington didn't listen to Debussy? Louis Armstrong loved opera, did you know that? Name me a jazz pianist… — Dave Brubeck Copy Share Image
I've mainly been sampling jazz because the tone of the chords are expressive in itself, so it's quite nice to write over.… — King Krule Copy Share Image
I am Charles Mingus, half black man, not even white enough to pass for nothing but black. I am Charles Mingus, a… — Charles Mingus Copy Share Image
A lot of places we go, when they see the organ coming in, they're expecting rock and roll, but after they hear… — Wes Montgomery Copy Share Image
The Zombies were really unique - they had elements of jazz and classical music in their songs and songwriting. They had a… — Paul Weller Copy Share Image
There is an awful lot of what I call recreational jazz going on, where people go out and learn a particular language… — Steve Lacy Copy Share Image
Jazz isn't as profitable for labels like Hip hop or Rap. Jazz needs subsidies to continue, just like European classical works of… — Jimmy Heath Copy Share Image
My mother was a jazz fanatic and she wanted me to play the piano so I could play jazz tunes. I wish… — Etta James Copy Share Image
Some people say there was no jazz tenor before me. All I know is I just had a way of playing and… — Coleman Hawkins Copy Share Image
I'm comfortable singing jazz. The only thing I was concerned about is that everybody, even in jazz, has their own style. To… — Gladys Knight Copy Share Image
Western classical music had long known syncopation. But no one had felt compelled to snap his fingers to music before American jazz… — Heather Mac Donald Copy Share Image
Most of the stuff I learned to play, I learned in high school. I had a band in high school, a jazz-fusion… — Brian McKnight Copy Share Image
I think there are only three things that America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they study this civilization:… — Gerald Early Copy Share Image
My early influences were the Shadows, who were an English instrumental band. They basically got me into playing and later on I… — Tony Iommi Copy Share Image
It's not enough to just be a good singer. You have to know where your roots come from. If you sing jazz,… — Jinkx Monsoon Copy Share Image
I took some lessons as a kid but trained myself by ear. I did it the way jazz musicians used to learn… — Donald Fagen Copy Share Image
The first jazz pianist I heard was Thelonious Monk. My father was listening to an album of his called 'Monk's Dream' almost… — Benny Green Copy Share Image
I'm from the beatnik generation, where everybody wanted to be a poet or writer or something. And at that time, I was… — Harvey Pekar Copy Share Image
There's a need for pop. There's a need for radio. There's also a need to understand the brilliance and the depth of… — Pharoahe Monch Copy Share Image
You know, somebody mentioned that I was sort of a jazz-pop singer. And I'm thrilled that somebody would find that, at last,… — Melissa Manchester Copy Share Image
Jazz is for joy. It's for euphoria, it's for emotion, and anguish, and excitement, and all of the joys that great art… — Gary Giddins Copy Share Image
One of my problems is I'm not really sure if I slot into rock or not. I've always tried to combine world… — Steve Winwood Copy Share Image
I grew up in the funk, rock and roll, blues and r&b tradition, and I came to this thing we call jazz… — Hamid Drake 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
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
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
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
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
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
![“[Miles Davis] learned from everyone. He was incredible. He took the best from everyone and threw away the rest. He was brilliant. One of the things he told me he loved about my voice was how I used space-both in music and between my voice and the mike.” quote by Helen Merrill](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/d14/helen-merrill-83326_brilliant_miles-davis-learned-from-everyone-he-was_3158989.jpg)
