It's not the style that motivates me, as much as an attitude of openness that I have when I go into a… — Herbie Hancock Copy Share Image
Some stances are just conducive to swinging. If I stand up straight for too long it's harder to swing. Plus my feet… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
External instruments are only extensions of the biological instrument. — Yusef Lateef Copy Share Image
I took the frets out of my bass after I was getting into jazz a lot and I wanted to have that… — Jaco Pastorius Copy Share Image
I just don't know anything about jazz, really. I've never really listened to it, but I'd definitely like to discover more about… — Michelle Ryan Copy Share Image
I was never interested in singing in the church or school. I was more interested in becoming a musician. — Cassandra Wilson Copy Share Image
The chief trouble with jazz is that there is not enough of it; some of it we have to listen to twice. — Don Herold Copy Share Image
I think jazz is actually quite unforgiving in its disdain for nostalgia. It demands creativity and change at its highest level. — Pat Metheny Copy Share Image
I started to listen to Japanese jazz musicians when I went to high school. Some people I listened to were Yosuke Yamashita,… — Hiromi Copy Share Image
Companies have to take risks to get new knowledge, in a manner similar to how jazz musicians take risks when they go… — John Kao Copy Share Image
Electronic musicians are quite like writers or painters. They are quite isolated in their home studios. We often don't have that the… — Jean-Michel Jarre Copy Share Image
It's imperative that I have another channel to pour ideas into, that have been with me for quite a while, that it… — Terence Trent D'Arby Copy Share Image
I despair about the lack of proper respect shown for the piano. If you want it to sound like a traffic jam,… — Oscar Peterson 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
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
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 don't really think in terms of the future of literature. I think literature will be around "forever" - but in a… — Nick Antosca Copy Share Image
I grew up playing the saxophone. I joined the jazz band in high school, but somewhere along the way I realized the… — Chris Carmack Copy Share Image
I always wanted praise, and I always wanted attention; I won't lie to you. I was a jazz critic, and that wasn't… — Harvey Pekar Copy Share Image
I only hope that one day, America will recognize what the rest of the world already has known, that our indigenous music… — Quincy Jones Copy Share Image
Bruce Katz is a spectacular talent! He's a brilliant composer and arranger who uses uncommon and unique musical intelligence to redefine jazz… — Larry Coryell Copy Share Image
My dad was a jazz fan and he used to have lots of old 78s, so I grew up with big jazz… — Ric Sanders Copy Share Image
I came from being a singer going into jazz. And that's one of the things that polio did for me is it… — Charlie Haden Copy Share Image
When I was about seventeen, I had a group called the Young Jazz Giants. We played all originals. When we would finish… — Kamasi Washington Copy Share Image
