Somebody asked me once, 'Do you think that swing will ever come back?' And I said, 'Do you think the 1938 Ford… — Artie Shaw Copy Share Image
The musicians in Chicago gave me my vocation, but New York calls to a jazz musician, for sure. You want to test… — Kurt Elling Copy Share Image
“Art and disease proliferate via contagion, and similar conditions favor both.” — Ted Gioia Copy Share Image
Keeping your artistic self as creative as possible is a balancing act. — Karrin Allyson Copy Share Image
I like to know for whom I'm writing - it makes the composition easier to do. — Lalo Schifrin Copy Share Image
I started off with the flute and French horn, and then I was playing trumpet in the jazz band. — KiKi Layne Copy Share Image
I always felt of myself as a composer, performer, improviser. I've never called myself a jazz man. I make art. — Wadada Leo Smith Copy Share Image
I love jazz music and sad music. I'm a sentimental guy. I'm a romantic guy. — Fred Durst Copy Share Image
My favorite type of music to sing to would be rock and roll, Tenacious D, Led Zeppelin, some Queen - I love… — Casey Abrams Copy Share Image
I think we are in the midst of this period where we are committing this suicide on the planet and everybody is… — Sonny Rollins Copy Share Image
I love swing, jazz, blues, standards. I love the American songbook, Gershwin, Berlin. It's all that. So I'm born in the wrong… — Sarah Lancashire Copy Share Image
Yes, there's a relaying of internal states that only a novel can achieve. In my view, the novel is one of Europe's… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
I've always had a love for music, and it developed as I learned jazz, blues, and gospel. And I performed with jazz… — Luke James Copy Share Image
The Meters are, I think, the most influential group in our time to come out of New Orleans, to have changed and… — John Scofield Copy Share Image
Every good gospel singer you can hear is a scat singer; they're just using different syllables. There are a lot of jazz… — Al Jarreau Copy Share Image
The only things that the United States has given to the world are skyscrapers, jazz, and cocktails. That is all. And in… — Federico Garcia Lorca Copy Share Image
When people get up on the stage and say, "I've got AIDS," or "I'm in recovery," gosh, it's hard for them. It's… — Cecil Williams Copy Share Image
Playing octaves was just a coincidence. And it's still such a challenge, like chord versions, block chords like cats play on piano.… — Wes Montgomery Copy Share Image
By the latter part of high school, by the middle of junior year in high school, Jay Rodriguez played me some Irakere… — Jon Gordon Copy Share Image
I worry more about the marketing that's taken hold since the 70s. The Jazz era, the Swing era, those were huge. Entire… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
I started playing music around 13 or 14, played jazz in high school, and played other stuff in college. After college, I… — Jesse Andrews Copy Share Image
One interesting thing about jazz, or art in general, but jazz especially is such an individual art form in the sense that… — Damien Chazelle Copy Share Image
My faith is the grand drama of my life. I'm a believer, so I sing words of God to those who have… — Olivier Messiaen Copy Share Image
I got into playing the jazz. I played jazz for a good while. I did the popular stuff first. You got the… — Papa John Creach Copy Share Image
![“By the latter part of high school, by the middle of junior year in high school, Jay Rodriguez played me some Irakere records that that Paquito [D'Rivera] was on. And he also played me and our friend, Curtis Haywood, some Phil Woods records. And when I heard Phil, I just about lost my mind. I was…” quote by Jon Gordon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/b89/jon-gordon-1655_80s_by-the-latter-part-of-high-school-by-the_2544684.jpg)
