Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music. — Nina Simone Copy Share Image
That awkward moment when you try to explain a song but dont want to sing it. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's not the song that make you cry, it's the people behind the memories.. — Arjun Loveable Copy Share Image
That's the thing about jazz: it's free flowing, it comes from your soul. — Billy Crystal Copy Share Image
I like to hear the sound of form, and I like to hear the sound of it breaking. — Frederick Seidel Copy Share Image
Technique is communication: the two words are synonymous in conductors. — Leonard Bernstein Copy Share Image
It is an honour and a privilege to play music for a living, and I don't take it for granted, not even… — Jimmy Chamberlin Copy Share Image
The duty of the words is to say just as much as the music has left unsaid and no more. — Ralph Vaughan Williams Copy Share Image
“But Blake infused hope in his music. Love was the only song he knew how to play.” — Debra Anastasia Copy Share Image
Pronouns really don't matter in a song - 'I' or 'he' or 'she' or even subscribing a lyric to an inanimate object. — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
Creativity and artistic endeavors have a mission that goes far beyond just making music for the sake of music. — Herbie Hancock Copy Share Image
I also started writing songs because I had this burning activity in my heart and had to express myself. — Annie Lennox Copy Share Image
In music the mystical element is definitely there all the time, and one can see it. — Debbie Harry Copy Share Image
I have the opportunity, once more to right some wrongs, to pray for peace, to plant some trees, and sing more joyful… — William Arthur Ward Copy Share Image
There is no way I'll ever write an album for Avril Lavigne or Christina Aguilera. I just couldn't do it. There is… — Devin Townsend Copy Share Image
I had always been a jazz fan - Django Reinhardt, Kenny Burrell, Wes Montgomery, Joe Pass, the early George Benson. And I… — Peter Frampton Copy Share Image
I worked with Snoop, but I would love to work with him again, but DMX I would love to work with him… — Bow Wow Copy Share Image
We had just played a sold-out show and it had been a fun night when we heard the news. It brought everything… — Brendan Bayliss Copy Share Image
Obviously given good health, and a continuing audience and a record company that allows me to do music. So given those things… — Al Jarreau Copy Share Image
Whether a listener absorbs this music or rebels against it is at least partly a matter of how the performers put it… — Allan Kozinn Copy Share Image
When you wrote a song way back in the day, you were writing material to play live. And you would buy the… — Travis Morrison Copy Share Image
I write a lot of material you've never heard that live inside my sadness. You'll hear a song that lasts six to… — Jason Mraz Copy Share Image