New Age is a very small box. It was a term that was brought in by the music industry to classify music… — Yanni Copy Share Image
I started singing Folksongs with my mother when I was 6 years old. We sang at Folk festivals and concerts and schools.… — Vicki Sue Robinson Copy Share Image
Before I start, I create a set list that I listen to while I'm writing. For 'Intimate Apparel,' I loaded Erik Satie,… — Lynn Nottage Copy Share Image
She [Joni Mitchell] wanted to have that (jazz) element in her music. Of course, when she heard Jaco's [Jaco Pastorius'] music and… — Don Alias Copy Share Image
I don't know who's 18 years old today that, 20 years hence, is going to be a jazz fan. — Norman Granz Copy Share Image
I've mainly been sampling jazz because the tone of the chords are expressive in itself, so it's quite nice to write over. — King Krule Copy Share Image
I was deeply impressed and moved by his masterful playing. He was highly polished, profound, subtle, and intense. He was extremely fluent… — Pete La Roca Copy Share Image
Keith Moon is not interested in Jazz and won't ever be a Jazz drummer because he's more interested in looking good and… — Pete Townshend Copy Share Image
At 3 A.M., I'm still up watching videos of jazz heroes I never saw live. It's so thrilling. And not just the… — Bonnie Raitt Copy Share Image
Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood," a song that was written for Simone, she confronted the band's lead singer, Eric Burdon. "So you're… — Nina Simone Copy Share Image
Dave Rocha is a modern player out of the hard-bop tradition, with a beautiful sound and tremendous facility on the horn. You… — Dan Feiszli Copy Share Image
Symphony musicians are not trained in improvising, certainly not in a jazz style. — Gunther Schuller Copy Share Image
An artist can only be evaluated after he's dead. At the 11th hour he might do something that will eclipse everything else. — Van Cliburn Copy Share Image
Everything-everything-was communicated through the sound of the music. There were no other signals of any kind ever-no count-offs, head nods, spoken instructions...nothing. — Chuck Israels Copy Share Image
Dabbling in music and being in music when I was young I had my own view of what I thought music was… — Rakim Copy Share Image
I think the singer/songwriter genre is going to be like bluegrass and jazz. You can make a living at it, but it's… — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
Bop began with Jazz but one afternoon somewhere on a sidewalk maybe 1939, 1940, Dizzy Gillespie or Charlie Parker or Thelonious Monk… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
People who don't do jazz think it's black magic. But really, it's just a matter of getting used to it. It's fun… — Andre Previn Copy Share Image
It was liberating to do comedy. It felt like playing in a jazz band. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
Well, I had started a program which is even longer running than this one in 1967 which was a jazz program called… — Humphrey Lyttelton Copy Share Image
The life of the arts is far from an interruption, a distraction, in the life of a nation, is close to the… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
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