As a rule, my focus is on classical music, but I love jazz. I love everything, actually. — Julie Andrews Copy Share Image
There's an ecstatic side to writing. It's like jazz. It just has a life. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Smokin' at the Half Note is the absolute greatest jazz-guitar album ever made. It is also the record that taught me how… — Pat Metheny Copy Share Image
I've never listened to jazz. It's just not something I ever paid attention to. — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
I can count on one hand the number of instrumental hits there have been over the last 10 years. — Chuck Mangione Copy Share Image
All the folks I play with come from jazz backgrounds or at least appreciate spontaneity within the parameters of a pop song. — Andrew Bird Copy Share Image
Blues and soul and jazz music has so much pain, so much beauty of raw emotion and passion. — Christina Aguilera Copy Share Image
I listen to Neil Young and jazz and classical stations and, if my girlfriend's driving, it tends to be Hall & Oates. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I studied classical music for a year. Then, I studied jazz for a year at the New School, and then I got… — Andrew Wyatt Copy Share Image
Ornette Coleman is doing the only really new thing in jazz since the innovations in the mid-forties of Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker,… — John Lewis Copy Share Image
For me it's the high-water mark of American culture - not so much contemporary jazz, which has become kind of academic, but… — Flea Copy Share Image
I always told the people at Cal Arts that if they wanted me to do Jazz studies, first of all, there couldn't… — Charlie Haden Copy Share Image
I take a jazz class and I also take just a regular exercise class with a man who gives me acupressure treatments.… — Jessica Lange Copy Share Image
A gripper of a read . . . Silence revives the cliff’s-edge drama of those Jazz age climbs and drives home the… — Bruce Barcott Copy Share Image
In classical music, love is based on bitin' -- imitation. It's not based on interpretation. A jazz musician, if he plays someone… — Todd Boyd Copy Share Image
All the jazz guys had interracial relationships, and even the ladies did. Over the years, interracial relationships have been a hip, almost… — Quincy Jones Copy Share Image
Music needs the juxtaposition of opposites to achieve its drama, so harshness and dissonance are simply part of the material a musician… — Chuck Israels Copy Share Image
I tended to listen to doo-wop, but my grandmother would always have the radio on all day and she'd start with Yiddish… — Richie Havens Copy Share Image
I was in this public high school in Princeton, and it had this topnotch jazz program - if you were a musician… — Damien Chazelle Copy Share Image
I think the people who are saying jazz has to sound a particular way, or "what you're doing isn't jazz," are just… — Robert Glasper Copy Share Image
It helps me to learn things in different languages, even if it's just phonetically, and to make myself vulnerable to other audiences… — Kurt Elling Copy Share Image
I don't want to put a name on my music. Other people can put a name on what I do. It's just… — Hiromi Uehara Copy Share Image
I think there are dozens or hundreds of different forms of creativity. Pondering science and math problems for years is different from… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
My dad was all about music. He was a musician, leading a band when I was born. His band was active all… — Chick Corea Copy Share Image
