The umbrella of jazz is so big and so wide . If you don't like saxophone, try a vocalist, if you don't… — Gregory Porter Copy Share Image
One of the greatest attributes of jazz, I think, is that it is that open. — Herbie Hancock Copy Share Image
At a time when individualism is becoming an endangered species, jazz represents a celebration of the individual. — Ellis Marsalis, Jr Copy Share Image
I always say that the problem with jazz accessibility is not the content of the music, it's people's ability to access it. — Esperanza Spalding Copy Share Image
I like jazz but actually I didn't love it enough to study it for four years. It was boring. — Tom Misch Copy Share Image
'Amores Perros' is rock, '21 Grams' is jazz, 'Babel' is an opera, and 'Biutiful' is a requiem. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
The human being receives the pleasure from music, not from the argument over what it is. — Ornette Coleman Copy Share Image
Jazz is really 20th-century fusion music. You take West African harmony and rhythm, mix with European harmony, and boom! — Christian Scott Copy Share Image
“She leaves my side and heads deeper into the apartment singing, “—if the spirit tries to hide, its temple far away… a… — Nathan Reese Maher Copy Share Image
I want to make hip-hop that can use guitars and soul and jazz and just fuse it all together. And I want… — Will Ferrell Copy Share Image
I wanna show that gospel, country, blues, rhythm and blues, jazz, rock 'n' roll are all just really one thing. Those are… — Etta James Copy Share Image
I have no illusions about being a genius musician. I pride myself on being a soldier, a warrior for jazz. I trained… — Phil Woods Copy Share Image
I started writing songs when I was 10. It was a natural way to express myself as a kid. It wasn't until… — Kimbra Copy Share Image
The Ertegun Jazz Hall of Fame will provide a center where the lives and the artistry of the greatest jazz musicians will… — Ahmet Ertegun Copy Share Image
“One two, one two, Type a word or two. Arrow left, arrow right, Keep those fingers nice and tight. Keys up, Keys… — Jazz Feylynn Copy Share Image
I've got my own studio, and I've got four- to five-hundred unreleased tracks. I've got stuff that's electronic, orchestral, jazz, I've got… — Serj Tankian Copy Share Image
The jazz guitarist Peter Sprague calls his home recording studio SpragueLand, but sometimes it seems that the moniker better captures the way… — Andrew S. Gilbert 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 would urge a young player to listen to Charlie Christians' sense of time ... I'll never forget listening to my… — John Pizzarelli Copy Share Image
Back in the day in my teens I was listening to Joe Pass and Wes Montgomery a lot; before that I was… — Larry Carlton Copy Share Image
I will never again play anything that does not have social significance. We American jazz musicians of African descent have proved beyond… — Max Roach Copy Share Image
It came from my mother. She was a singer, and literally every day of the week she sang at a different club… — Robert Glasper Copy Share Image
The improvisational nature of jazz musicianship is such that a truly competent performer must be prepared to function as an on-the-spot composer… — Albert Murray Copy Share Image
It's very interesting to read why Cornelius Cardew became disenchanted with academic avant-garde music. He wanted to reach as many people as… — Alasdair MacLean Copy Share Image
