What was the competition? Well, I remember this Puerto Rican who came out in a short skirt and a gun. — Sarah Vaughan Copy Share Image
Trumpet players are just belligerant, and cocky, and you know, just hard-headed. — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
Benny Goodman's band was integrated before baseball. Even before it was physically integrated, music was integrated. Everyone listened to Armstrong and Ellington.… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
I listen to either romantic classical music, Brahms or Beethoven or something like Mozart, or I go all the way contemporary and… — Ramin Djawadi Copy Share Image
My short answer would be that there is no greatest jazz musician of the century. Jazz, like any valid art form, finds… — Bennie Wallace Copy Share Image
I put out a recording of me singing mostly jazz because I wanted people to know I'm coming from a jazz background. — Rickie Lee Jones Copy Share Image
As I became an adult, I listened to a lot of jazz, to the ladies of jazz, Ella Fitzgerald and Carmen McRae… — Lindsay Mendez Copy Share Image
Many people forget that Jazz, no matter what form it takes, must come from the heart as well as the mind. — Mary Lou Williams Copy Share Image
I lay in that tub on the seventeenth floor of this hotel for-women-only, high up over the jazz and push of New… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
People who are qualified are symphonic orchestra players and jazz musicians; they're qualified to do what they do. Rock stars are lucky.… — Gene Simmons Copy Share Image
I went to jazz school. Not to say I'm a great jazz musician, but I studied under some great teachers. It was… — Robert Trujillo Copy Share Image
Trane was the perfect saxophonist for Monk's music because of the space that Monk always used. Trane could fill up all that… — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
I think all of us begin as writers. I wanted to be a writer from the time I as eight, long before… — Gary Giddins Copy Share Image
I never practice my guitar. From time to time I just open the case & throw in a piece of raw meat. — Wes Montgomery Copy Share Image
I think of my life as divided between a lot of different periods. I grew up in the country, but as I… — Reed Krakoff Copy Share Image
That's a skill that I'm proud of: to be able to be a jazz musician and go a bit crazy sometimes and… — Robert Glasper Copy Share Image
I love jazz because it's so American; you know it's our Only Original Art Form. It just goes against the greed of… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
I started playing music around 13 or 14, played jazz in high school, and played other stuff in college. After college, I… — Jesse Andrews Copy Share Image
They always say that jazz doesn't sell, but it's a lie, because it does sell, and it sells consistently year in and… — Lester Bowie Copy Share Image
It's not exclusive, but inclusive, which is the whole spirit of jazz. — Herbie Hancock Copy Share Image
