Dizzy used to tell me I'm playing too hard. He'd say to not give everything. Miles told me that too. — Freddie Hubbard Copy Share Image
And that's the soulful thing about playing: you offer something to somebody. You don't know if they'll like it, but you offer… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
The common root, of course, comes out of Africa. That's the pulse.The African pulse. It's all the way back from . .… — Duke Ellington Copy Share Image
[My wife Margot] was the - I guess, the coordinator or the production manager [of The Jazz Review], and we got to… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
We real cool. We Left school. We Lurk late. We Strike straight. We Sing sin. We Thin gin. We Jazz June. We… — Gwendolyn Brooks Copy Share Image
The tapes we were making would jump around with different styles, just quick parts of different songs. Hip-hop to jazz to funk… — Ad-Rock Copy Share Image
Let me see you do the 'rag time dance'... Turn left and do the 'Cake walk prance'... Turn the other way and… — Scott Joplin Copy Share Image
That's kind of like how jazz is sometimes. You're out there predicting the future, and no one believes you. — Branford Marsalis Copy Share Image
I called it 'Unleash the Dragon,' but I didn't exactly unleash the dragon. I kind of held back, mainly because I felt… — Sisqo Copy Share Image
Miles Davis fully embraced possibilities and delved into it. He was criticized heavily from the jazz side. He was supposed to be… — Bill Laswell Copy Share Image
I wasn't a jazz player, but a classical musician, and I improvised arrangements of popular songs using classical motifs. — Nina Simone Copy Share Image
Prior to Katrina, the South Bronx and New Orleans' Ninth Ward had a lot in common. Both were largely populated by poor… — Majora Carter Copy Share Image
I was being ridiculed for going to school... But, you see, I had looked hard at the other musicians and the whole… — Donald Byrd Copy Share Image
I started writing songs when I was 10. It was a natural way to express myself as a kid. It wasn't until… — Kimbra Copy Share Image
“Today you go into make a modern recording with all this technology. The bass plays first, then the drums come in later,… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
When people ask me how is it I was a musician, I facetiously say that I'm a firm believer in reincarnation and… — George Shearing Copy Share Image
The Meters are, I think, the most influential group in our time to come out of New Orleans, to have changed and… — John Scofield Copy Share Image
I would like to be a scholar in whatever I do, a scholar is never finished, he is always seeking and I… — Ahmad Jamal Copy Share Image
It ["Begin the Beguine"] became such a hit that it superseded anything that any band had ever had. It was the first… — Artie Shaw Copy Share Image
“Call me crazy, but there is something terribly wrong with this city.” — Nathan Reese Maher Copy Share Image
In the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra we play such a diversity of music, with 10 arrangers in the band, we don't… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
“Everywhere was the atmosphere of a long debauch that had to end; the orchestras played too fast, the stakes were too high… — Malcolm Cowley Copy Share Image
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