I don't believe that jazz will ever really die. It's a nice way to express yourself. — Chet Baker Copy Share Image
I work very hard at being the best musician I can be because I love it. — Diana Krall Copy Share Image
I don't know if I have enough guts to do a whole standard jazz record. — Gary Cherone Copy Share Image
One of the things I like about jazz, kid, is I don't know what's going to happen next. Do you? — Bix Beiderbecke Copy Share Image
I think that drummers have come a long way, but they haven't forgotten players like Gene Krupa, or the other jazz players. — Bill Ward Copy Share Image
I have learned as much about writing about my people by listening to blues and jazz and spirituals as I have by… — Ernest Gaines Copy Share Image
There's a category for me. I like to be referred to as a good singer of good songs in good taste. — Sarah Vaughan Copy Share Image
I'm always looking for ways to develop as an artist, especially as a jazz artist-to find different ways of testing my voice. — Cassandra Wilson Copy Share Image
I was very thrilled to witness the workby my ol' buddy Jim Widner whose expertise in the field of jazz education proved… — Clark Terry Copy Share Image
People who love jazz musicians love us when we play what we want to play and we're starving. But as soon as… — George Benson Copy Share Image
I began to realize that some of the things Ornette Coleman had said about things being played three or fours ways, independently… — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
Jazz brought this sense of democracy where four guys come together and your name may be on the marquee, but in this… — Al Jarreau Copy Share Image
I remember my uncle, who was a jazz pianist, when we did Deep Purple 'In Rock,' he ran from the room screaming,… — Ian Gillan Copy Share Image
The lion's share of what I hear right now are people who, intentional or accidental, have avoided all jazz prior to 1960.… — Branford Marsalis Copy Share Image
We can all be grateful that there is a place like (University of) North Texas! North Texas has been unique among schools… — Peter Erskine Copy Share Image
And what gift of America to the rest of the world is actually most appreciated by the rest of the world? It… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I've grown up with jazz - the Joe Hendersons, Oliver Nelsons, Miles Davis and stuff - but I was also listening to,… — Thundercat Copy Share Image
Kansas City, I would say, did more for jazz music, black music, than any other influence at all. Almost all their joints… — Jesse Stone Copy Share Image
I kind of grew up a guitar nerd and I tried to figure out how to shred on an acoustic guitar as… — Michael Gungor Copy Share Image
I was 16 when I came to New York. I had graduated to a tenor banjo in the school jazz band, and… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
Jazz is the music of the body. The breath comes through brass. It is the body's breath, and the strings' wails and… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
Classical singing - everything had to be homogenous, and it had to just feel like one continuous flow from top to bottom,… — Cecile McLorin Salvant Copy Share Image
Jazz musicians like John Coltrane needed these very clear titles for their abstract music, and your decision to bring voices into your… — Glenn Ligon Copy Share Image
In my mother's church, everybody read the Bible and it was mostly about music. My mother had the most beautiful voice I… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
