Me as an artist, I've ventured off into doing all types of music. I'll do a jazz album, you know what I… — Common Copy Share Image
There are a lot of records coming out, in every field of music, not just jazz. — Herbie Hancock Copy Share Image
I used to be a jazz snob, believe it or not. I sort of turned my nose up at anything more commercial. — Norah Jones Copy Share Image
Around 2009, my audience started getting a lot more mainstream - younger people, R&B and hip-hop fans mixed in with the jazz… — Robert Glasper Copy Share Image
I love more percussions more than anything. I always wanted to be a drummer. — Pharoah Sanders Copy Share Image
I'm not much on gimmicks. I never have been because they don't last. — Billy Eckstine Copy Share Image
If I'm not saying it in four choruses or less, then I'm not saying it. — Milt Jackson Copy Share Image
Jazz is something that you have to feel. It's something that you have to live. — Ray Brown Copy Share Image
In a way, the history of jazz's development is a small mirror of classical music's development through the centuries. Now jazz is… — Mike Figgis Copy Share Image
When I was playing piano, it was like, 'I'm going to write a song using all the white keys.' My music director,… — John Tesh Copy Share Image
The brain is only three pounds of blood, dream, and electricity, and yet from that mortal stew come Beethoven's sonatas. Dizzie Gillespie's… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
I grew up listening to hipster jazz and classical records... we went and watched ballet and orchestras - lots of cool stuff.… — Courtney Barnett Copy Share Image
You ask: What is it that philosophers have called qualitative states? I answer, only half in jest: As Louis Armstrong said when… — Ned Block Copy Share Image
To be honest, I don't have a particular recipe, but I normally start with the chord progression and then I build it… — Tom Misch Copy Share Image
I was playing organ at a silent movie house at Harlem and they'd be showing some death scene on the screen. Likely… — Fats Waller Copy Share Image
How great musicians demonstrate a mutual respect and trust on the bandstand can alter your outlook on the world and enrich every… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
For the most part, 99 percent of jazz is boring; you've heard it before. People aren't doing anything creative that's extremely modern.… — Robert Glasper Copy Share Image
Improvisation sometimes seemed more like jazz than acting, like verbal jazz, with the actors playing a theme back and forth, and then… — Alan Arkin Copy Share Image
Jazz music should be inclusive. Smooth jazz to me rules out a certain kind of drama and a certain tension that I… — David Sanborn Copy Share Image
It doesn't matter if people are playing jazz or writing poetry. If they want to be successful, they need to learn how… — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
I'd rather call it "instrumental creative music," especially the music that I've been doing. If a person would hear that music, they… — Eldar Djangirov Copy Share Image
I started singing Folksongs with my mother when I was 6 years old. We sang at Folk festivals and concerts and schools.… — Vicki Sue Robinson Copy Share Image
“In his book Real Presences, George Steiner asks us to "imagine a society in which all talk about the arts, music and… — Geoff Dyer Copy Share Image
I've always romanticized the late '40s and '50s - the cars, jazz, the open roads and lack of pollution. Now there are… — Garrett Hedlund Copy Share Image
“Jazz, like left-wing politics and 'the common man', was a cause .” — Martin T. Williams Copy Share Image
