Ornette Coleman is doing the only really new thing in jazz since the innovations in the mid-forties of Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker,… — John Lewis Copy Share Image
In high school I was a jazz nerd, listened to a lot of Bud Powell and Thelonious Monk and stuff like that.… — Bill Orcutt Copy Share Image
One very fundamental thing has not changed and I realized that it will never change... is that I really need to go… — Pat Metheny Copy Share Image
I listen to all kinds of songs. There's something to be learned from every type of music and from the one making… — Brian McKnight Copy Share Image
You're just sort of searching for this 'thing' and sometimes you get it and sometimes you don't. All music is imperfect, but… — John Abercrombie Copy Share Image
I hired Bob at Terrytoons. He was my assistant animator, and then became an animator himself. He had just come from Boston… — Ralph Bakshi Copy Share Image
The problem we have is that, some people call it 'too rock' to play on a jazz station, and it's 'too jazz'… — Allan Holdsworth Copy Share Image
My thing was, I loved music. I played music: I played the saxophone. So the little bit of music knowhow I had,… — Rakim Copy Share Image
We do ballet dancing, Irish dancing, Scottish, jazz, tap - whatever country we're in or whatever culture that we'd like to present… — Emma Watkins Copy Share Image
I feel like certain people think that certain styles of music will taint their jazz style. — Robert Glasper Copy Share Image
I've often felt I've been born out of my time, and when I started Fairground Attraction in the 1980s, I wanted to… — Eddi Reader Copy Share Image
As a jazz musician, you have individual power to create the sound. You also have a responsibility to function in the context… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
Since the beginning of my recording career in 1975, I have had a little difficulty because the pop stations think I'm a… — Al Jarreau Copy Share Image
I was an absolute idiot, wearing polo-necks, reading Kerouac, watching Woody Allen movies, and jazz fitted right into all of that. My… — Jamie Cullum Copy Share Image
I had my jazz club and I had enough money. So I didn't have to write for my living. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Today Jazz music is performed & listened to by people of all ethnicity, backgrounds, ages & creeds. — Michelle Obama Copy Share Image
I never gave up on that idea, you know, that jazz musicians have the same opportunity as everybody else and that it's… — George Benson Copy Share Image
I'm just writing love songs. I'm not trying to be pop. I'm not trying to be jazz. I'm not trying to be… — Adele Copy Share Image
