As Eric Dolphy said 'Once you play the music, it's in the air. It's gone'. And that's true. But when you record… — John Abercrombie Copy Share Image
It's just music. It's trying to play clean and looking for the pretty notes. The beat in a bop band is with… — Charlie Parker Copy Share Image
There's no future without the past and anybody who doesn't really understand where jazz has come from has no right to try… — Cannonball Adderley Copy Share Image
They put on fresh gloves and got back to business. Jazz wiped up the blood splatters in the freezer and tossed the… — Barry Lyga Copy Share Image
You should never be comfortable, man. Being comfortable fouled up a lot of musicians. — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
Nobody would know it to look at me, but the movies I liked as a kid were musicals - 'All That Jazz,'… — Juliette Lewis Copy Share Image
I do subscribe to the maxim that generally comedy is like jazz. Either you get it or you don't. You can't learn… — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
If the average jazz artist uses his head and at the outset of his career realizes he won't play as well at… — Oscar Peterson Copy Share Image
If I don’t practice for a day, I know it. If I don’t practice for two days, the critics know it. And… — Louis Armstrong Copy Share Image
The talking shows are like free jazz. I'm just gonna go out there and blow with the idea of keeping it streamlined… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
Elvis might have compromised his musical style a bit towards the end, but that doesn't mean that artists from the rock n'… — Bonnie Raitt Copy Share Image
My brother Leon started it all. He played the piano. In school they made me leader of the orchestra because I played… — Louis Prima Copy Share Image
Jazz presumes that it would be nice if the four of us-simpatico dudes that we are-while playing this complicated song together, might… — Dave Hickey Copy Share Image
Louis Armstrong is the master of the jazz solo. He became the beacon, the light in the tower, that helped the rest… — Ellis Marsalis, Jr Copy Share Image
There are great jazz educators that I meet all the time. I met a guy named Paul Luchessi who has a high… — Jon Gordon Copy Share Image
There's been this perception that Europeans still hold on to, that they discover the real talented ones in American culture and give… — Andrew Bird Copy Share Image
I could do without 'cool' publications calling me 'mom jazz.' But I laughed all the way to the bank, baby. — Norah Jones Copy Share Image
I like to shoot beautiful things. My two previous movies were one in the '60s, the other one in the '50s, and… — Michel Hazanavicius Copy Share Image
We didn't go for music that sounded like blues, or jazz, or rock, or Led Zeppelin, or Rolling Stones. We didn't want… — Michael Giles Copy Share Image
The aim of jazz is the mechanical reproduction of a regressive moment, a castration symbolism. 'Give up your masculinity, let yourself be… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
After the war, once the bop revolution had taken hold, there were all kinds of young musicians, talented young musicians, who were… — Gunther Schuller Copy Share Image
I'd been studying philosophy at the University of Chicago. I hadn't been doing well, because I was sitting in with jazz musicians… — Kurt Elling Copy Share Image
Rejoice at the death and cry at the birth: New Orleans sticks close to the Scriptures. — Jelly Roll Morton Copy Share Image
