I don't think that jazz, as any kind of an art form, has any permanence attached to it, apart from the practitioners… — Norman Granz Copy Share Image
A lot of times, jazz musicians try to educate people. What other genre does that? — Robert Glasper Copy Share Image
Jazz has provided the framework for all the other stuff that I've done. — Lizz Wright Copy Share Image
If he's a true symphony artist, he knows better than that because he knows that the only truly creative musician is the… — Buddy Rich Copy Share Image
We all have to open our minds, stretch forth, take chances and venture out musically to try and arrive at something new… — Horace Silver Copy Share Image
I knew even if I'm a cowboy, I'm going to be involved in jazz in some way. — Dave Brubeck Copy Share Image
Most of what I listen to now is mainstream jazz from 1935 right up to and including early bebop and cool jazz. — Dave Van Ronk Copy Share Image
The day of the great Jazz improviser who doesn't know how to read music is over. — Maynard Ferguson Copy Share Image
I'm not a jazz singer, blues singer or country singer. I'm a singer that can sing rhythm & blues, that can sing… — Ray Charles Copy Share Image
My life has been going in ways I never could have dreamed of - doing the closing celebration for the Olympic Games… — Dianne Reeves Copy Share Image
A lot of EDM is not bad at all when it's simple, but a lot of it is not really musical. That's… — Zedd Copy Share Image
We always feel pretty creative as far as writing songs. We write them together; we just get in a room, or on… — Chad Smith Copy Share Image
I grew up listening to Ravel, Debussy, Bartok and jazz like Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Cannonball Adderley, Charlie Christian and Django Reinhart.… — Allan Holdsworth Copy Share Image
I think when you look back at the different eras in jazz, what leads from one to another is never a melodic… — Stefon Harris Copy Share Image
I studied opera for a year at Georgia State University, but I wasn't interested in that meticulous, technical approach to music. So… — Lizz Wright Copy Share Image
I grew up with all these old jazz guys in the '70s in L.A., and they grew up idolizing Charlie Parker, Charles… — Flea Copy Share Image
You can not ignore his current life. Bowie has become a family man and enjoys to see his children grow up close… — Gail Ann Dorsey Copy Share Image
I have a taste for a lot of different kinds of music... everything, from hip-hop to jazz to R&B to top 40… — Ray Allen Copy Share Image
In the United States, many people said you can't have folk music in the United States because you don't have any peasant… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
“Those who have not lived in New Orleans have missed an incredible, glorious, vital city--a place with an energy unlike anywhere else… — Jordan Flaherty Copy Share Image
There are so many parts of music that it's actually a pleasure for me to work with an orchestra, or a jazz… — Alexandre Desplat Copy Share Image
I love all types of music. Jazz, classical, blues, rock, hip-hop. I often write scripts to instrumentals like a hip-hop artist. Music… — Chadwick Boseman Copy Share Image
[On John Tunnard:] One day a marvelous man in a highly elaborate tweed coat walked into the gallery. He looked a little… — Peggy Guggenheim Copy Share Image
But you listen to Coltrane and that's something human, something that's about elevation. It's like making love to a woman. It's about… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
![“[On John Tunnard:] One day a marvelous man in a highly elaborate tweed coat walked into the gallery. He looked a little like Groucho Marx. He was as animated as a jazz-band leader, which he turned out to be. He showed us his gouaches, which were as musical as Kandinsky's, as delicate as Klee's…” quote by Peggy Guggenheim](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/525/peggy-guggenheim-27198_animated_on-john-tunnard-one-day-a-marvelous-man_158228.png)
