“I’m always thinking about creating. My future starts when I wake up in the morning and see the light.” — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
If you asked people, "Do you like jazz?" they would be like, "not at all." But I think that if you're really… — Kamasi Washington Copy Share Image
If it wasn't for hustlers, gangsters & gamblers there'd be no Jazz. Wasn't middle~class who said Let's go hear Bird tonight. — Betty Carter Copy Share Image
In the year of 1902, when I was about seventeen years old, I happened to invade one of the sections [in New… — Jelly Roll Morton Copy Share Image
I'm all in favor of getting grants for musicians. Or any other good brand of Scotch. — Pepper Adams Copy Share Image
For me, jazz is an understanding of music, rather than an end in itself. — Jacob Collier Copy Share Image
Steve Marcus was one of the greatest saxophonists in all of music. He truly was able to unite jazz with the popular… — Larry Coryell Copy Share Image
I'm pretty optimistic about the future of rock... it will be back to composition as in classical music or jazz. — Jimmy Page Copy Share Image
Monk taught me more about music composition than anyone else on 52nd Street. — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
Jazz speaks for life. The Blues tell the story of life's difficulties. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I like to mix and match things so I'm infusing a little bit of jazz, a little bit of classical, a little… — Gino Vannelli Copy Share Image
Souljazz doesn't reinvent soul, jazz or the fusion thereof, but it plays all of the above with the passion that drove its… — Anthony Fantano Copy Share Image
I had trained a bit in Bharatanatyam in the past but did not learn in depth. The same goes with jazz, western,… — Keerthy Suresh Copy Share Image
Jazz does not belong to one race or culture, but is a gift that America has given the world. — Ahmad Alaadeen Copy Share Image
Hell, nobody knows where jazz is going to go. There may be a kid right now in Chitlin Switch, Georgia, who is… — Quincy Jones Copy Share Image
Boxing is like jazz. The better it is, the less people appreciate it. — George Foreman Copy Share Image
The only things that the United States has given to the world are skyscrapers, jazz, and cocktails. That is all. And in… — Federico Garcia Lorca Copy Share Image
I was very thrilled to witness the workby my ol' buddy Jim Widner whose expertise in the field of jazz education proved… — Clark Terry Copy Share Image
Then it evolved into more of a ballad style singer/songwriter thing. And there was a conflict in trying to merge the two… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
