Giving jazz the Congressional seal of approval is a little like making Huck Finn an honorary Boy Scout. — Melvin Maddocks Copy Share Image
When I was about 18, I really started diving into Dave Matthews Band and John Mayer Trio and some of those things… — Lauren Daigle Copy Share Image
There were so many specific things from high school jazz band that I remembered: the conductor searching out people who were out… — Damien Chazelle Copy Share Image
Amsterdam must have more than a million people. But the only area where jazz is really profitable and successful in an economic… — Norman Granz Copy Share Image
Jazz is known all over the world as an American musical art form and that's it. No America, no jazz. I've seen… — Art Blakey Copy Share Image
It's been thrown up to me most of my life: Why don't I just concentrate on conducting or composing or my own… — Andre Previn Copy Share Image
Well, the way I play, I try not to be a 'repeater pencil', ya dig? Originality's the thing. You can have tone… — Lester Young Copy Share Image
The history of jazz for the last 45 years has come through the Monterey Jazz Festival stages. I think there's developed a… — Tim Jackson Copy Share Image
All art is communication of the artists' ideas, sounds, thoughts; without that no one will support the artist. — Lionel Hampton Copy Share Image
My whole life, my whole soul, my whole spirit is to blow that horn. — Louis Armstrong Copy Share Image
I was playing organ at a silent movie house at Harlem and they'd be showing some death scene on the screen. Likely… — Fats Waller Copy Share Image
In Malaysia, we have a lot of divas, like Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey singers. And they were all so so talented, just… — Yuna Copy Share Image
“I can’t help but ask, “Do you know where you are?” She turns to me with a foreboding glare. “Do you?” — Nathan Reese Maher Copy Share Image
When her muzzle grew more white than brown, the chipmunk forgot that she and the squirrel had had nothing to talk about.… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
This whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, “Is there a meaning to music?” My answer to that would be,… — Aaron Copland Copy Share Image
One chord is fine. Two chords are pushing it. Three chords and you're into jazz. — Lou Reed Copy Share Image
One of the most obvious aspects of the music to people who know jazz is: How does it feel in the swing?… — Chuck Israels Copy Share Image
I don't outline. I sit down to write, and I take the ride. If something starts to not feel right, I go… — Taylor Sheridan 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
Jazz Improvisation means that practice is not as straightforward as it would be when you simply have a score to play. — Ahmad Jamal Copy Share Image
