The beauty of jazz is that it's malleable. People are addressing it to suit their own personalities. — Pat Metheny Copy Share Image
Jazz to me is a living music. It's a music that since its beginning has expressed the feelings, the dreams, hopes, of… — Dexter Gordon Copy Share Image
Jazz drummers traditionally are not always prepared to just hold down the beat; it's like they're soloing the whole time. — Steven Wilson Copy Share Image
All them weird chords which don't mean a thing...you got no melody to remember, and no beat to dance to — Louis Armstrong Copy Share Image
We're having a hard time understanding where jazz is going. What happened to jazz? — Ken Burns Copy Share Image
I'm very L.A. in that sense, where I'm very into star science and horoscopes and all that jazz. — Alana Haim Copy Share Image
The whole thing you're taught in jazz is the spontaneity of it. That's what I really love about jazz. — Stan Getz Copy Share Image
The outer space beings are my brothers. They sent me here. They already know my music. — Sun Ra Copy Share Image
I like jazz, and Martin Taylor and his band have it all, including a wonderful saxophonist and very fine accordionist, so you… — Tim Pigott-Smith Copy Share Image
Musical theater is an American genre. It started really, in America, as a combination of jazz and operetta; most of the great… — Rachel Bloom Copy Share Image
Jazz is all about improvisation and it's about the moment in time, doing it this way now, and you'll never do it… — Brian McKnight Copy Share Image
Jazz isn't like pop, where you sell millions of records with a hit. Your spirit and soul aren't important in pop music.… — Freddie Hubbard Copy Share Image
Well first of all, I'm a singer. I sing since I talk. So the great ballad singers, the people that sang with… — Gloria Estefan Copy Share Image
Bernstein grew up in my building in New York. He's a very, very fine player. When he was a kid, he came… — Lee Konitz Copy Share Image
I took several years of dance lessons that included ballet, tap and jazz. They helped a great deal with body control, balance,… — Lynn Swann Copy Share Image
I heard a lot of different kinds of music. I heard country music, I heard jazz, I heard symphonic music, opera, everything… — Pauline Oliveros Copy Share Image
“The thing in jazz that will get Bix Beiderbecke out of his bed at two o’clock in the morning, pick that cornet… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
Instead of the metaphor of scales in balance, I prefer the idea of a jazz quartet: you're trying to make music that… — Stewart D. Friedman Copy Share Image
My dad's also a musician, so jazz was always around the house. When I was 11, I developed an interest in it,… — Kamasi Washington Copy Share Image
Reactionary conservatives are smiling through the racial apocalypse. To them, race baiting is a joke, as 'humorist' Rush Limbaugh will tell you… — John Ridley Copy Share Image
I may be prejudiced, but I believe that jazz music has the strongest healing potential, and it's not just because I play… — Horace Silver Copy Share Image
I teach in M.F.A. programs now, and I think that's a great way to become a novelist, but I mourn that Pete… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
Jazz spent a chunk of the day fantasizing about ways to kill his grandmother, plotting them and planning them in the most… — Barry Lyga Copy Share Image
I anticipated all the changes in jazz because they were all problematical things, that I was dealing with myself. In New York… — Paul Bley Copy Share Image
