It’s like a language. You learn the alphabet, which are the scales. You learn sentences, which are the chords. And then you… — Stan Getz Copy Share Image
The old jazz singers or old blues singers, you always just saw them kind of sitting down and singing. They weren't worried… — Lucinda Williams Copy Share Image
It's something that - jazz is one of the few things that you can go and listen to, I don't care where… — Billy Higgins Copy Share Image
You know somethin', man? Some day I'm gonna be walkin' up the street one way and you're gonna be comin' down the… — Chick Webb Copy Share Image
All of the technique doesn't matter... only if the feeling is right. — John Coltrane Copy Share Image
I don't want to appear hostile, like I'm hostile to L.A. or that I feel that the people don't appreciate jazz. I… — Sonny Rollins Copy Share Image
It's easy to mock a man who has founded a religion based on John Coltrane, who considers 'A Love Supreme,' whatever its… — Tucker Carlson Copy Share Image
'I Am Jazz' was more for children to understand what it means to be transgender, but with 'Being Jazz,' I wanted to… — Jazz Jennings Copy Share Image
The history of all big jazz bands shows was, first they played for dancing, and then they played for singing. — Norman Granz Copy Share Image
I'd been a wedding singer through college, but after a few years of doing my best renditions of jazz standards to clinking… — Idina Menzel Copy Share Image
When I was studying at Berklee, I got the feeling I couldn't play the [guitar] at all, because I could not use… — Gabor Szabo Copy Share Image
I learned jazz; that comes from blues. I learned rock; that comes from blues. I learned pop; that comes from blues. Even… — Cyndi Lauper Copy Share Image
Jazz is my adventure. I'm after new chords, new ways of syncopating, new figures, new runs. How to use notes differently. That's… — Thelonious Monk Copy Share Image
“Jazz presumes that it would be nice if the four of us--simpatico dudes that we are--while playing this complicated song together, might… — Dave Hickey Copy Share Image
I've always wanted to record a jazz record. I did one in the '70s with Barbara Carroll. It's been a journey. — Rita Coolidge Copy Share Image
Jazz is musical humor. The noun jazz describes a modern American technique for the playing of any music, accompanied by noise called… — Bix Beiderbecke Copy Share Image
People need to realize that even the greatest jazz musicians, when they listen to jazz, they're not like, analyzing it and deconstructing… — Kamasi Washington Copy Share Image
“Do we not each dream of dreams? Do we not dance on the notes of lost memories? Then are we not each… — Nathan Reese Maher Copy Share Image
I worked in reggae, hip-hip, jazz, funk - all the music I used to relate to. — Mark Morrison Copy Share Image
In Europe, they like everything you do. The mistakes and everything. That's a little bit too much. — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
What I wanted to do was music, until I was about 16. But it was jazz and rock, never classical music. — Simon Helberg Copy Share Image
I did ballet, jazz and flamenco from when I was five years old. And my professional career started with dancing in musicals. — Jennifer Lopez Copy Share Image
Jazz is not background music. You must concentrate in order to get the most out of it. You must absorb it. — Horace Silver Copy Share Image
