In composition you have all the time you want to decide what to say in 15 seconds, in improvisation you have 15 seconds. — Steve Lacy Copy Share Image
I can't understand guys who just have to have your autograph. What do you do when you get home, take it out… — Artie Shaw Copy Share Image
I've been listening to a lot of looped jazz stuff: Herbie Hancock, Miles Davis, Jaco Pastorius. — Calum Hood Copy Share Image
Trouble follows me wherever I go. Thing I'm in is just a sack o'woe. — Jon Hendricks Copy Share Image
Comedians talk to other comedians the way jazz musicians can talk to each other. — David Steinberg Copy Share Image
Jazz is all about that. It's bending things and breaking away from what's on the page and improvising. — Laufey Copy Share Image
Just because I'm playing jazz I don't forget about me. I play or write me, the way I feel, through jazz, or… — Charles Mingus Copy Share Image
I have tons of jazz records: John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis. I could go on and on. — Ted King Copy Share Image
Jazz celebrates older generations and not just the youth movement. When you 'sell' only to people of a certain age, you get… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
I want a church service with New Orleans funeral jazz music. I'd like people to say a few words about me and… — Paul Young Copy Share Image
What I believe to be jazz is constructed and improvised music which is in the air right now. But I don't think… — John Lurie Copy Share Image
In this country kings or dukes don't amount to nothing. The greatest man around then was Franklin D. Roosevelt, and he was… — Billie Holiday Copy Share Image
“I don’t know a thing about jazz.” “That’s okay.” He pulled me toward the door and opened it. “You know music. Jazz… — Jessica Martinez Copy Share Image
I listened to Billie Holiday a lot in order to learn to sing. She remains one of the extraordinary jazz singers. But… — Madeleine Peyroux Copy Share Image
Rock and roll is not an instrument. Rock and roll isn't even a style of music. Rock and roll is a spirit… — MC Ren Copy Share Image
The problem we have is that, some people call it 'too rock' to play on a jazz station, and it's 'too jazz'… — Allan Holdsworth Copy Share Image
“In America, music was the first sphere of social interaction in which racial barriers were challenged and overturned. And the challenge went… — Ted Gioia Copy Share Image
Improvisation was the blood and bone of jazz, and in the classic, New Orleans jazz it was collective improvisation in which each… — Russell Lynes Copy Share Image
I had an affinity for music and could play anything I heard on the piano, but I wasn't scholastically advanced in any… — Melody Gardot Copy Share Image
“I rouse Emily to our guests, as she finishes off our fifteenth snowman by setting the head atop its torso. She stands… — Nathan Reese Maher Copy Share Image
They put on fresh gloves and got back to business. Jazz wiped up the blood splatters in the freezer and tossed the… — Barry Lyga Copy Share Image
America's the great conundrum and the great dream and the great fascination: the new land, the new world, the new temple, the… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
Duke Ellington's career traces the entire history of jazz. The repertoire associated with him contains the most important elements in the music… — Billy Taylor Copy Share Image
Jazz music is America's past and its potential, summed up and sanctified and accessible to anybody who learns to listen to, feel,… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
