The music certainly plays a major role. You can be free enough to comfort each other, to touch each other, to embrace… — Cecil Williams Copy Share Image
I have been influenced by the greatest artists in jazz, pop, reggae, traditional, ballards, pop, and all types of music, taking the… — Laura Pausini Copy Share Image
As a child brought up in Paris, I dreamed of America, that lost world my parents had left behind - it was… — Alexandre Desplat 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 love singing jazz. I don't like the idea that classical music should be over here and jazz should be someplace else.… — Jessye Norman Copy Share Image
I was in a rock band; I was my own folk singer; I was in a death metal band for a very… — Kiesza Copy Share Image
I would like to thank my father who discouraged me from playing the violin at an early age. — Paul Desmond Copy Share Image
You see, pops, that's the kind of talk that's ruining the music. Everyone's trying to do something new, no one trying to… — Louis Armstrong Copy Share Image
I was used to dancing, but only when someone told you what to do. So in the nightclub I was all over… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
I keep reverting (to Duke Ellington), he to me is the greatest ever and my favorite jazz philosopher, as such. — Cannonball Adderley Copy Share Image
If I had to look at 'Now He Sings'... from outside myself, I see it as a natural part of the growth… — Chick Corea Copy Share Image
People ask me to describe how I play, and the most obvious answer is that I'm a jazz influenced guitar player. But… — Larry Carlton Copy Share Image
Coltrane was moving out of jazz into something else. And certainly Miles Davis was doing the same thing. — Jan Garbarek Copy Share Image
I'm a rap comedian the same way Bill Cosby is a jazz comedian, Cosby's laid back. I'm like, bang, bang bang, right… — Chris Rock Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, you listened to a certain genre. Now it's like, "I love indie rock, I love hip-hop, jazz,… — Jonathan Rhys Meyers Copy Share Image
That's the beauty of music. You can take a theme from a Bach sacred chorale and improvise. It doesn't make any difference… — Dave Brubeck Copy Share Image
As more people get into indie bands and alternative music, they're also getting more into other genres that fit those categories, like… — Hilary Hahn Copy Share Image
Lately, Ive been listening to some jazz albums. I love the new Pat Metheny album. John Coltrane. I still like good metal,… — Geezer Butler Copy Share Image
My strength is to communicate with an audience and to know what jazz singing is capable of. — Kurt Elling Copy Share Image
Sometimes you need to stand with your nose to the window and have a good look at jazz. And I've done that… — J. J. Johnson Copy Share Image
I used to do a lot of apologizing for what the State Department had done. — Dizzy Gillespie Copy Share Image
To me, Bill's musical heart is in Earthworks, in the jazz they are playing, in the acoustic kit. — Robert Fripp Copy Share Image
You not only have to know your own instrument, you must know the others and how to back them up at all… — Oscar Peterson Copy Share Image
