The black hole in democracy is integrity. The great unspoken is integrity. When integrity is not first and foremost, it's quite palpable… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
It's really not a stretch. The checks and balances are the same. The drums are the executive branch. The jazz orchestra is… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
Within the context of Western music, jazz has always contained certain radical or revolutionary aspects. These are: improvisation, collective composition and individuality… — Michael Snow Copy Share Image
The economic picture in the States today doesn't allow for jazz concerts in a tour fashion. People now are too used to… — Norman Granz Copy Share Image
I think 'Horace Silver' was actually the first live jazz group I ever heard back when I was a kid in St.… — David Sanborn Copy Share Image
The music I like best is kind of frozen in my mind from the Sixties and Seventies. I still listen to the… — Don DeLillo 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 don't believe that jazz will ever really die. It's a nice way to express yourself. — Chet Baker Copy Share Image
I think the other thing that's important is getting to a place, which very, very rarely happens with improvising groups, where somebody… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
If you're gonna sing meaningful songs, you have to be committed to living a life that backs that up. — Joan Baez Copy Share Image
I've been saying for almost 20 years that I need to do a jazz project and it ought to be either big… — Al Jarreau Copy Share Image
I was sometimes doing DJ stuff and working in a record shop in Tokyo. That place was a very unique shop. It… — Miho Hatori Copy Share Image
Our approach is more the jazz approach, where you learn to play your instrument as well as you can, develop your craft,… — Butch Trucks Copy Share Image
A lot of the people that I photograph are master musicians themselves, whether they're singers or great jazz players and it's kind… — Carol Friedman Copy Share Image
If I worried about that, I wouldn't have made a single record in my whole career. I think more and more, audiences… — Dave Douglas Copy Share Image
Whatever I'd say would be an understatement. I can only say my life was made much better by knowing him. He was… — John Coltrane Copy Share Image
Yes, I have been studying piano since I was six. Classical, jazz, compositional, Broadway, everything. I just love it all. — Janel Parrish Copy Share Image
It is my belief that there is a tendency among the so-called 'modern' or 'hip' jazz musicians to consider styles other that… — Don Ellis Copy Share Image
I've never been on a board, but I just went on the board for Jazz at Lincoln Center. I'm very happy about… — Larry Gagosian Copy Share Image
I went to jazz college and didn't know diddly about jazz like Derek did. He knew more about jazz and the country-blues… — Susan Tedeschi Copy Share Image
The symphonic orchestras have sponsors, people who give them endowments, and I think it should be the same way with jazz -… — Lee Morgan Copy Share Image
There's such a wealth of arts and styles within the guitar... flamenco, jazz, rock, blues... you name it, it's there. In the… — Jimmy Page Copy Share Image
