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
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
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
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 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 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
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
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
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
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
