I love the sounds of Latin jazz, R&B, hip-hop, alternative, all that stuff. I'm a radio kid. — Mario Vazquez Copy Share Image
I went to North Texas State, one of the great jazz schools. When I realized I wasn't going to be Miles Davis,… — Peter Weller Copy Share Image
I think the people who are saying jazz has to sound a particular way, or "what you're doing isn't jazz," are just… — Robert Glasper Copy Share Image
Scott Tixier is an exciting young jazz violinist and is making an international name for himself. I heard him in France and… — Marcus Miller Copy Share Image
The people at Jazz at Lincoln Center are an amazing group and have done a phenomenal job teaching kids and audiences of… — Steve Miller Copy Share Image
The whole point is, give me a break with the standards. You go to the average jazz label and suggest a record… — Branford Marsalis Copy Share Image
At Carnegie Hall the Preservation Hall Jazz Band showed how easily it could hop from era to era. It could work like… — Jon Pareles Copy Share Image
I don't care about the rules, if I don't break the rules at least 10x every song then I'm not doing my… — Jeff Beck Copy Share Image
I love Ray Charles. He can still teach everybody a lot about how to make great music. Not necessarily how to make… — Ahmet Ertegun Copy Share Image
In my neighborhood - West 121st Street in New York, "white Harlem" - there were only two drugs: smack and marijuana. By… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
African American music can't happen in Germany or in Italy or in Mumbai. If America disappeared off the face of the Earth… — David Simon Copy Share Image
Reading was like an addiction; I read while I ate, on the train, in bed until late at night, in school, where… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I don't get jazz. It always sounds like a bunch of toddlers let loose in a music room.” — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
A portrait of the young Charlie Parker with a degree of vivid detail never before approached. . . [Kansas City Lightning is]… — Tom Piazza Copy Share Image
I met Gary (Burton) at the Wichita Jazz Festival when I was 18 -- he was one of my favorite musicians and… — Pat Metheny Copy Share Image
I never believed in a set routine. It should depend on how you feel, because you play what you feel. — Buddy Rich Copy Share Image
What 'jazz' means to me is the worst kind of working conditions, the worst in cultural prejudice. The term 'jazz' has come… — Maxim Gorky Copy Share Image
I mix everything up. A museum curator once said to me that there is a great jazz component to the way I… — Iris Apfel Copy Share Image
