Growing up, I'd already decided I wanted to be a beatnik. A Bohemian poet, I thought. Or a musician. Maybe an artist.… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
I grew up listening to a lot of classic jazz, and stuff like The Beatles, and old Motown stuff, and a lot… — Alison Sudol Copy Share Image
Don't we look suspicious, the three of us just sitting here in the car?" Borden asked. We'd look a lot more suspicious… — Rachel Caine Copy Share Image
My CD collection has a lot of world music - lots of Indian, African, Portuguese, Greek, Italian music. Because of my husband,… — Kiran Ahluwalia Copy Share Image
It's something that jazz has gotten away from, and it's unfortunate. Players aren't physical anymore. — Branford Marsalis Copy Share Image
I read every book there was on jazz, about the original players - King Oliver, Buddy Bolden and all those groups. At… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
Barney Kessel was 'Mr. Guitar,' the foremost jazz guitarist of his generation. He had an amazing imagination, his solos were incredible, he… — Larry Coryell Copy Share Image
I think Berklee College of Music had the highest dropout rate of any college - or pretend college - in the United… — Brendon Small Copy Share Image
I say, play your own way. Don't play what the public want - you play what you want and let the public… — Thelonious Monk Copy Share Image
I think that virtuosity is the first sign of morality in a musician. It means you're serious enough to practice. — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
People forget that the same man who did 'Star 80' and 'All that Jazz' also did 'Pardon Me Miss But I've Never… — Ann Reinking Copy Share Image
Jazz was a bomb. That was also the low point of Mac sales. People had just written it off. — Mitch Kapor Copy Share Image
The music I like to play is Rock 'N Roll. I like to rock like a wild animal. I like to rock… — Wesley Willis Copy Share Image
I listen to a mixture of old jazz, contemporary, pop, some world beat stuff and various odds and ends. — Walter Becker Copy Share Image
When I got started in New York, if you were different from Miles & Dizzy it was very difficult. — Freddie Hubbard Copy Share Image
I looked back on the roaring Twenties, with its jazz, 'Great Gatsby' and the pre-Code films as a party I had somehow… — Hugh Hefner Copy Share Image
Life on the road is murder. It's as though life begins and ends when you have your horn in your mouth. — Gerry Mulligan Copy Share Image
The hardest thing about being a young musician on the jazz scene is that there are so many styles of music, jazz… — Dave Kikoski Copy Share Image
The value of jazz still has to be clarified. People involve themselves with its superficialities without digging for its soul. — Stan Getz Copy Share Image
the beauty of America, neither cool jazz nor devoured Egyptian heroes, lies in lives in the darkness I inhabit in the midst… — Frank O'Hara Copy Share Image
