I got into trad jazz, then modern jazz, then avant-garde jazz, between the ages of 16 to 18. — Roy Harper Copy Share Image
Ella knows her way around her voice as very few people today. But there are times when she seems to be unaware… — Ella Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“I have sometimes thought that the mere hearing of those songs would do more to impress some minds with the horrible character… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
The iconoclastic mode, that specific mode of language, there is an element of it that it is punk - that is confrontational.… — Matthew Shipp Copy Share Image
I think that a rap aficionado, the hardcore rap fan, will always go away from pop, in the same way a hardcore… — Ice T Copy Share Image
Today jazz is still very much alive. Everywhere I go there's a new generation of musicians. — Toots Thielemans Copy Share Image
I give bird songs to those who dwell in cities and have never heard them, make rhythms for those who know only… — Olivier Messiaen Copy Share Image
It doesn't matter if I ever win another award or get to play another major jazz festival in America. I would rather… — Christian Scott Copy Share Image
After me there are no more jazz singers . . . It's a crime that no little singer is back there sockin'… — Betty Carter Copy Share Image
I grew up in the funk, rock and roll, blues and r&b tradition, and I came to this thing we call jazz… — Hamid Drake Copy Share Image
We're [with Robbie Robertson ] jazz musicians. The context may be rock 'n' roll but it's still jazz. It's jazz and that… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
Once 'A.N.T. Farm' started, I was inspired by Chyna to jazz up my style. Now I paint my nails bright, fun colors… — China Anne McClain Copy Share Image
I've always been a jazz fan, but I don't write much about jazz, because I don't have the chops. But it's really,… — Robert Christgau Copy Share Image
Jazz music and, more specifically, jazz musicians, are my artistic heroes. I want to be the Thelonious Monk of acting. He had… — Trevor St. John Copy Share Image
Frankie Randall is a consummate performer. He is an exquisite jazz pianist and wonderful singer. I had the great pleasure to work… — Lainie Kazan Copy Share Image
Louis Armstrong is quite simply the most important person in American music. He is to 20th century music (I did not say… — Ken Burns Copy Share Image
When we listen to improvisational jazz, or solo classical violinists, the way they phrase and inflect melodies feels vocal, like they’re talking… — Bobby McFerrin Copy Share Image
I just saw a recent television program about art, and it was saying how from the end of the Second World War,… — Robert Wyatt Copy Share Image
The first jazz musician was a trumpeter, Buddy Bolden, and the last will be a trumpeter, the archangel Gabriel. — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
Charlie Parker said, 'Jazz comes from who you are, where you've been, what you've done. If you don't live it, it won't… — David Dellinger Copy Share Image
The greatest thing about music is putting it out there for people to figure out. — Diana Krall Copy Share Image
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