If I'm not a jazz player all the time, I've at least been cued in to what I do by jazz. — Keith Jarrett Copy Share Image
I read an interview with a Japanese freestyle jazz musician once, and he said something like, "Everything I'm going to tell you… — Paul Beatty Copy Share Image
You need better technique than I have to play jazz, but what you have to do is the same thing, isn't it? — Charlie Watts Copy Share Image
If America has a future, Jazz has a future. The two are inseparable. — George Russell Copy Share Image
For me jazz is kind of an extension of hip-hop. Kind of the sad thing is that a lot of jazz people… — Jose James Copy Share Image
I'm very L.A. in that sense, where I'm very into star science and horoscopes and all that jazz. — Alana Haim Copy Share Image
Certainly one of the more common experiences in the jazz field is discovering someone new. Improvising musicians are capable of being musical… — Gary Burton Copy Share Image
Many jazz musicians affect a misunderstood-genius air when they play, which alienates the audience and breaks down the communications of the music.… — Gabor Szabo Copy Share Image
When I came to New York, to Brooklyn, I met Alvin Ailey and Stanley Crouch and August Wilson. They were always putting… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
I am friends with the most amazing musicians that can do pop, rap, punk and jazz. — Kenny Beats Copy Share Image
My dad was a drummer for The Mamas & The Papas, and his mother was in the jazz world, so music has… — Ashley Roberts Copy Share Image
When I was 13, I used to go to a jazz club. The owner of the club became my first business manager.… — Johnny Mathis Copy Share Image
People behind the Iron curtain have such an incredible image of America and jazz. I expected to find a Gerry Mulligan or… — Gabor Szabo Copy Share Image
Jazz is like wine. When it is new it's only for the experts, but when it gets older everybody wants it. — Steve Lacy Copy Share Image
The technical history of modern harmony is a history of growth of toleration by the human ear of chords that at first… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
If Music is a Place -- then Jazz is the City, Folk is the Wilderness, Rock is the Road, Classical is a… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
This is our bandstand. If you don't want to play, get up off the instrument and leave. — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
