Shook is the musical universe I created. I come from a classical and jazz background and my father is a jazz pianist,… — Shook Copy Share Image
In the United States, many people said you can't have folk music in the United States because you don't have any peasant… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
There's such a cynicism about the phrase 'I laughed all the way to the bank.' It's as though money is what you're… — Artie Shaw Copy Share Image
I'm not going to play funk licks on a jazz album. That makes no sense. — Branford Marsalis Copy Share Image
Nobody knows where jazz is going, because nobody has ever known where jazz was going. I mean, you couldn't possibly predict the… — Gary Giddins Copy Share Image
I have very eclectic taste in music. I like everything from Nirvana, which is featured in the film, to world music, to… — Isla Fisher Copy Share Image
I started playing violin because I was fascinated by how violin players could play so fast. I would buy their cassettes, and… — Toby Lightman Copy Share Image
The Zombies were really unique - they had elements of jazz and classical music in their songs and songwriting. They had a… — Paul Weller Copy Share Image
If there's any such thing as a perfect man, I think John Coltrane was one. And I think that kind of perfection… — Elvin Jones Copy Share Image
We're working as if it were going out of style-which of course it is. — Paul Desmond Copy Share Image
As long as I've been playing, they never say I done anything. They always say that some white guy did it. — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
That's the thing about jazz: it's free flowing, it comes from your soul. — Billy Crystal Copy Share Image
I started off with classical music, and I got into jazz when I was about 14 years old. And I've been playing… — Herbie Hancock Copy Share Image
I'm moved by a lot of different kinds of music, whether it's pop music or R&B or straight-ahead jazz or free or… — David Sanborn Copy Share Image
I had just discovered jazz, and I started singing in a kind of blues cover band at the age of 15. We… — Hozier Copy Share Image
Beginning in the sixties, but getting strong during the seventies and eighties, everybody was sort of Miles Davis and Chick Corea and… — Gilberto Gil Copy Share Image
For some reason that only a sociologist might be able to accurately explain, the Brazilian Press was extremely unkind to me, reporting… — Astrud Gilberto Copy Share Image
Jazz was formerly a crude term for indulging in an action which in polite society is referred to, if at all, only… — Charlton Laird Copy Share Image
These magic moments when rhythms and harmonies extend themselves and jell together and the people become another instrument. These things are priceless… — Andrew Hill Copy Share Image
Music is a plane of wisdom, because music is a universal language, it is a language of honor, it is a noble… — Sun Ra Copy Share Image
What are the symbols of American strength, wealth, power and modernity? Certainly not jazz and rock and roll, not chewing-gum or hamburgers,… — Oriana Fallaci Copy Share Image
