Where I grew up, Bob Wills and his western swing was very popular. And western swing is not that far from jazz… — Willie Nelson Copy Share Image
There's nothing wrong with it. It's only a word. What's in a name? Nothing! Cats say, "Call me Muhammed so-and-so. " — Art Blakey Copy Share Image
Salsa, classic rock, soul music, jazz... all of that was a part of my education in making hip-hop music. — Aloe Blacc Copy Share Image
Dizzy used to tell me I'm playing too hard. He'd say to not give everything. Miles told me that too. — Freddie Hubbard Copy Share Image
I was a jazz drummer, and it was my life for a while: what I lived and breathed every day. — Damien Chazelle Copy Share Image
I don't think theater is dying, and musicals are a great American art form. We've got apple pie, jazz and musical theater. — Laura Benanti Copy Share Image
Jazz is such a powerful cultural statement that it's almost as if it's intertwined with society. — Tom Harrell Copy Share Image
A note can be as small as a pin or as big as the world, it depends on your imagination. — Thelonious Monk Copy Share Image
I listened to Buddy Rich a lot, and also to guys like Clive Bunker, the original drummer from Jethro Tull. All these… — Marky Ramone Copy Share Image
I became a radio nut. I loved the afternoon serials, and I got into jazz through the radio. I had a subscription… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
The podcast 'A History of Jazz' began telling its story in February - 100 years after the recording of 'Livery Stable Blues'… — David Hepworth 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
I came upon Diana Krall's jazz arrangement of "A Case of You" several years back. I've always wanted to pay homage to… — Cheyenne Jackson 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
I don't really have a favorite genre. I could listen to a rock song, a metal song, jazz, pop music, whatever. For… — Bakermat Copy Share Image
I used to hang out a lot in jazz clubs, and the groups took to a kid like me who wasn't afraid… — Eric Burdon Copy Share Image
I'd been getting bored with the stereotyped changes (harmonies) that were being used all the time. ... I found that by using… — Charlie Parker Copy Share Image
Comedians and jazz musicians have been more comforting and enlightening to me than preachers or politicians or philosophers or poets or painters… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
One of the most obvious aspects of the music to people who know jazz is: How does it feel in the swing?… — Chuck Israels Copy Share Image
If anybody was Mr. Jazz it was Louis Armstrong. He was the epitome of jazz and always will be. He is what… — Duke Ellington Copy Share Image
When her muzzle grew more white than brown, the chipmunk forgot that she and the squirrel had had nothing to talk about.… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
Before I became a writer, I was running a jazz bar in the center of Tokyo, which means that I worked in… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I was interested in Armstrong to begin with because he is the most important figure in Jazz in the 20th Century. There's… — Terry Teachout Copy Share Image
I love so many different types of music - hard rock, bebop, jazz fusion, R&B. And I've loved meeting and painting so… — Peter Max Copy Share Image
You can't make jazz without using certain elements of Latin music. — Jelly Roll Morton Copy Share Image
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