In this country, particularly, actually in times that are difficult, or from corners of America where you least expect it, unbelievable pure… — Baz Luhrmann Copy Share Image
When a human being is oppressed, the natural tendency is to feel anger. Jazz is a response to oppression that is not… — Herbie Hancock Copy Share Image
I wanna show that gospel, country, blues, rhythm and blues, jazz, rock 'n' roll are all just really one thing. Those are… — Etta James Copy Share Image
My dad is a big jazz fan, and that was the reason I first got into jazz. — Damien Chazelle Copy Share Image
Jazz is a fighter. The word 'jazz' means to me, 'I dare you. Let's jump into the unknown!' — Wayne Shorter Copy Share Image
New Orleans had a great tradition of celebration. Opera, military marching bands, folk music, the blues, different types of church music, ragtime,… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
I had 12 years of classical music as a child, playing piano competitions as a teenager, playing in blues bands and rock… — Ronnie Milsap Copy Share Image
I mostly listen to very popular songs. But I'm a huge fan of Stevie Wonder, and I love jazz - Glenn Fredly,… — Joe Taslim Copy Share Image
It was so interesting, when [John Coltrane] created A Love Supreme. He had meditated that week. I almost didn't see him downstairs.… — Alice Coltrane Copy Share Image
When I was home, traditionally since I was young, I'd write in cafés. That was the romantic notion in 1963. Café atmospheres… — Patti Smith 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
I would love to do a biopic of a famous singer, like Diana Ross or Donna Summer, or an old jazz story… — Taraji P. Henson Copy Share Image
One of the interesting things an artist does is they keep rediscovering things, whether it's a jazz piece or a role you've… — Brian Stokes Mitchell Copy Share Image
I'm not a folk or jazz singer, more a hard-edged pop singer - with some rock, and song hooks. — Phoebe Snow Copy Share Image
I think of jazz as being homage through innovation. Don't quote that as a definition, but it comes pretty close. — Kurt Elling Copy Share Image
Jazz music is America's past and its potential, summed up and sanctified and accessible to anybody who learns to listen to, feel,… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
For me, great jazz records really feel like everyone in the room is playing together in a zone - and all the… — Benny Cassette Copy Share Image
People have taken time out of their day and spent their money to come sit down at a concert. And it's jazz… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
Charlie Parker lifted jazz music off the dance floor and into the stratosphere! — Joe Lovano Copy Share Image
“By and large, jazz has always been like the kind of man you wouldn't want your daughter to associate with.” — Duke Ellington Copy Share Image
There are only a handful of guys in the NBA who are going to be superstars and I think I found a… — Joe Ingles Copy Share Image
There's a lot of female singers and I don't want to dismiss them, but the male - and I have to be… — Gregory Porter Copy Share Image
Some people try to get very philosophical and cerebral about what they're trying to say with jazz. You don't need any prologues,… — Oscar Peterson Copy Share Image
Business today is all about improvisation, which is the essence of jazz. Perhaps in the past we could just follow the operating… — Josh Linkner Copy Share Image
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