When I got pretty good I went on the road with a group. We starved. — Wes Montgomery Copy Share Image
I was never that big a rock-and-roll, rock guy. I really preferred jazz, you know, that kind of thing. — Robert Barry Copy Share Image
There are editing procedures for talks just as there are editing procedures in jazz improvisation. — David Antin Copy Share Image
My other friends are in music relaxation class, which I do not attend, because smooth jazz makes me angry sometimes. — Matthew Quick Copy Share Image
It's always Jazz. You can put a new dress on her, a new hat, but no matter what kind of clothes she's… — Lionel Hampton Copy Share Image
Jazz has endured because it doesn't have a beginning or an ending. It's a moment. — Robert Altman Copy Share Image
I could do without 'cool' publications calling me 'mom jazz.' But I laughed all the way to the bank, baby. — Norah Jones Copy Share Image
All my life I've played 4/4, 2/4. Jazz has a different time signature. It's a lot harder. It's interesting. — Marky Ramone Copy Share Image
Starting in the middle of a musical sentence and moving in both directions at once. — John Coltrane Copy Share Image
If you're more interested in looking like a hipster, a jazz musician, or a young hunk, I'd recommend the pork pie. It… — Roger Stone Copy Share Image
“The guitar poured out its soul, its history, its dreams, its pain, its victories, its secrets. The guitar’s strings purred with blues… — Brenda Sutton Rose Copy Share Image
It occurred to me by intuition, and music was the driving force behind that intuition. My discovery was the result of musical… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
We've played so many places where, if you asked people, 'Do you like jazz?' they would be like, 'Not at all.' But… — Kamasi Washington Copy Share Image
I'm always doubting because I've been told so much that, you're not the right look or you're not the right sound, and,… — Ledisi Copy Share Image
Justin Di Cioccio led a jazz program at Music and Art, but there was no jazz in Performing Arts. After they joined,… — Jon Gordon Copy Share Image
It's the honesty you apply to your playing that makes music enjoyable. The style of the music has little to do with… — Elvin Jones Copy Share Image
There is an apprenticeship system in jazz. You teach the young ones. So even if the musicians weren't personally that likable, they… — Dave Van Ronk Copy Share Image
Some of the guys I played with .. didn't go around learning more about their instruments from an intellectual point of view.… — Benny Goodman Copy Share Image
Miles Davis, my one and only real hero of my life. I met him [because] every time I had a movie interview,… — Peter Weller Copy Share Image
I like to envision the creation of a short story collection as being like putting together a jazz album. Yes, there's logic… — Daniel Olivas Copy Share Image
In some ways, jazz is the most precise of art forms and the loosest in the sense that it's all about improvisation,… — Damien Chazelle Copy Share Image
Marching onward, marching onward Marching to that lovely tune Marching onward, marching onward Happy as a bird in June Sliding onward, sliding… — Scott Joplin Copy Share Image
“I noticed that religion gave some people a way to escape dealing with the world: “Things will be better when you die,”… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
“The structure of a jazz performance is, like that of the New York skyline, a tension of cross-purposes. In jazz at its… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It seems all worlds of music - rock, blues, R&B, soul, hip-hop and others - are able to point to impromptu get-togethers… — Ashley Kahn Copy Share Image
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