You can't make jazz without using certain elements of Latin music. — Jelly Roll Morton Copy Share Image
I understood jazz, I understood how it worked. That's what I apply to everything. — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
Diana Krall knocks me out. I like jazz and I like her simple approach. — Merle Haggard Copy Share Image
I like to say I listened to three genres of music growing up: classical, jazz and Taylor Swift. — Laufey Copy Share Image
Bach was a top harmonist geezer, which is why the jazz cats love him. — Nigel Kennedy Copy Share Image
Truth be told, I think jazz is a mind-set. It's not necessarily, like, this guy picked up a horn and did this… — Flying Lotus Copy Share Image
I play it Kool, gettin to tour just like a jazz player. Your record player ain't nothin without the funky rhyme sayer. — Kool G Rap Copy Share Image
People sometimes say it takes a long time to become a Jazz fan, but for me it took about five seconds. — Pat Metheny Copy Share Image
The value of jazz still has to be clarified. People involve themselves with its superficialities without digging for its soul. — Stan Getz Copy Share Image
My dad actually taught me how to play piano. I was classically trained, but I've started to branch off a little bit… — Noah Gray-Cabey Copy Share Image
My mother would take me to jazz concerts in the park and everybody was smoked out. She gave me the intro and… — Prefuse 73 Copy Share Image
Through improvisation, jazz teaches you about yourself. And through swing, it teaches you that other people are individuals too. It teaches you… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
Any live venue where there is alcohol served and it's past midnight there is gonna be fights. It doesn't matter if it's… — Slaine Copy Share Image
I never gave up on that idea, you know, that jazz musicians have the same opportunity as everybody else and that it's… — George Benson Copy Share Image
Making money ain't nothing exciting to me. You might be able to buy a little better booze than the wino on the… — Louis Armstrong Copy Share Image
Scott Tixier is an exciting young jazz violinist and is making an international name for himself. I heard him in France and… — Marcus Miller Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, I wanted desperately to be a jazz musician. I would practice the trumpet for hours, but when… — Zach Woods Copy Share Image
I met Gary (Burton) at the Wichita Jazz Festival when I was 18 -- he was one of my favorite musicians and… — Pat Metheny Copy Share Image
“I steal one glance over my shoulder as soon as we are far from the foreboding luminance of the neon glow, and… — Nathan Reese Maher Copy Share Image
In my teen years and early twenties I was really interested in this fellaheen worlds that, of course, Kerouac invokes and wanting… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
When I'm working, I'm pretty busy with that, but when I'm not, yeah, I like to make music. I sing in jazz… — Alia Shawkat Copy Share Image
I was listening to Jimi Hendrix and Pink Floyd, because that was new music for me. I really hadn't been up on… — Will Ferrell Copy Share Image
“I remember once I asked Wayne for the time," Miller told Mercer. "He started talking to me about the cosmos and how… — Ben Ratliff Copy Share Image
It's really not a stretch. The checks and balances are the same. The drums are the executive branch. The jazz orchestra is… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
And if you look around, if you listen to some music nowdays, I'm not so optimistic...I have the feeling that some of… — Peter Brotzmann Copy Share Image
![“I remember once I asked Wayne for the time," Miller told Mercer. "He started talking to me about the cosmos and how time is relative." Miller and [Wayne] Shorter were waiting somewhere -- an airport, a train station, a hotel. The band's keyboardist, Joe Zawinul, who took charge of such matters as…” quote by Ben Ratliff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/90e/ben-ratliff-164353_jazz_i-remember-once-i-asked-wayne-for-the-ti_3115023.jpg)
