What I like is not a particular genre, it's storytelling. There's a lot of great storytelling in jazz, and in folk and… — Lizz Wright Copy Share Image
It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
If you like rock and roll, if you like rhythm and blues, if you like jazz, if you like hip-hop, you might… — Laurence Fishburne Copy Share Image
Because it has such a ragged movement. It suggests something like that. — Scott Joplin Copy Share Image
Jazz, like leadership, combines the unpredictability of the future with the gifts of individuals. — Max De Pree Copy Share Image
I would say I take a lot of inspiration from jazz and I borrow a lot of principles from it and classical… — Laufey Copy Share Image
So What or Kind of Blue were done in that era, the right hour, the right day. It's over; it's on the… — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
But no one, when you stop to think, has ever equated abstract expressionism as a movement with jazz music. It's based on… — Romare Bearden Copy Share Image
In high school, I was always into Jerry Lee Lewis, and they decided they needed a piano player for the jazz band.… — Nellie McKay Copy Share Image
I have learned as much about writing about my people by listening to blues and jazz and spirituals as I have from… — Ernest Gaines Copy Share Image
I was interested in the ways that artists responded to totalitarianism - the Czech Jazz Section, Romanian absurdist theatre, Brecht's alienation effect.… — Nicholas Royle Copy Share Image
The lion's share of what I hear right now are people who, intentional or accidental, have avoided all jazz prior to 1960.… — Branford Marsalis Copy Share Image
“In his book Real Presences, George Steiner asks us to "imagine a society in which all talk about the arts, music and… — Geoff Dyer Copy Share Image
In high school, we had a really great jazz program that I finally was able to be a part of. They only… — Dianne Reeves Copy Share Image
Why a musician loves playing jazz or classical music or what makes them happy, and why an artist likes to paint -… — Elisabeth Moss Copy Share Image
Trust me, the only real way to understand 'Chic' is in highfalutin terms. Our chord progressions were based on European modal melodies.… — Nile Rodgers Copy Share Image
Now we also need people who just love to listen to the music. And we need people that want to work to… — Jon Gordon Copy Share Image
Tommy Dorsey was the last of the band leaders... He was ahead of his time; if he got drunk, he got difficult,… — Dick Haymes Copy Share Image
From jazz, the blues, country and rock to Hollywood movies, culture has in many ways been our greatest export (or our most… — Joy Reid Copy Share Image
One of the things jazz has always excelled at is translating the reality of the times through its musical prism. — Pat Metheny Copy Share Image
Jazz is not the kind of music you are going to learn to play in three or four years or that you… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
I was introduced to classical music by my grandparents - my parents were mostly into folk and jazz. Even as a young… — Chris Thile Copy Share Image
