We're not going to play the blues anymore. Let the white folks play the blues. They got 'em, so they can keep… — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
I listen to a lot of oldies stuff. Some Motown, Michael Jackson, jazz, etc. — Jaime Harrison Copy Share Image
My passion for gaming is well-known among both the Utah Jazz and my team in France. — Rudy Gobert Copy Share Image
I listen to Jay Z, some Kanye, and I mix it up - some rock and roll, a little bit of jazz. — Geno Smith Copy Share Image
The month of September is Women in Jazz, so I'm doing jazz there in September. I'm in for the duration. — Rita Coolidge Copy Share Image
It's been thrown up to me most of my life: Why don't I just concentrate on conducting or composing or my own… — Andre Previn Copy Share Image
You can start from any source material, and you can approach it with a jazz ear, and then it will become a… — Kurt Elling Copy Share Image
Country music as a genre, as an art form, is just as valid out there in the pantheon of the arts as… — Marty Stuart Copy Share Image
I'm not supposed to be playing, the music is supposed to be playing me. I'm just supposed to be standing there with… — Sonny Rollins Copy Share Image
Jazz is something that's constantly changing. Its sole purpose is to let people improvise, to let them solo differently each time they… — Allan Holdsworth Copy Share Image
I learned a lot about American history though jazz, and that's why I loved American history when I was in high school.… — Ron Cephas Jones Copy Share Image
I like to say, jazz music is kind of like my musical equivalent of comfort food. You know, it's always where I… — Molly Ringwald Copy Share Image
If you are in an improv jazz ensemble or a small chamber group, you learn to think fast on your feet and… — J. Richard Hackman Copy Share Image
In Europe they look upon jazz as art. In America it's a diversion. Somebody opens a restaurant and installs another band off… — Chet Baker Copy Share Image
There are only a handful of guys in the NBA who are going to be superstars and I think I found a… — Joe Ingles Copy Share Image
Liquid architecture. It's like jazz - you improvise, you work together, you play off each other, you make something, they make something.… — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
Introvert conversations are like jazz, where each player gets to solo for a nice stretch before the other player comes in and… — Laurie Helgoe Copy Share Image
Basically my influences have been American influences. It's been blues, gospel, swing era music, bebop music, Broadway show music, classical music. It's… — Horace Silver Copy Share Image
It's always difficult to define what jazz is or what jazz isn't. To me, the only definition that I can think of… — David Sanborn Copy Share Image
You listen to a Metallica song, and you listen to the drums, and they're not necessarily swinging, but the arrangements are different.… — Robert Trujillo Copy Share Image
When I was a teenager, I really didn't like loud rock music. I listened to jazz and blues and folk music. I've… — Ian Anderson Copy Share Image
I started out playing traditional jazz, and I still do: I love standards, I love the music. But it must move on,… — Robert Glasper Copy Share Image
When I started saxophone, my dad took me to my uncle's church, and I started playing there, too. At its best, music… — Kamasi Washington Copy Share Image
When I was a little kid wanting to play music, it was because of people like Pete Johnson, Huey Smith, Allen Toussaint,… — Dr. John Copy Share Image
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