It's so special to hear a room full of thousands of kids who are usually between 15 and 25 screaming along to jazz standards. — Laufey Copy Share Image
Just figure out what you think jazz is, and then if it fits into that category, it's jazz, and if it doesn't,… — Kenny G Copy Share Image
Jazz music is all about performance, right? At least, to me, it's about the freedom of performance, the different inflections you do… — Laufey Copy Share Image
I can't understand guys who just have to have your autograph. What do you do when you get home, take it out… — Artie Shaw Copy Share Image
Jazz is very important. It's not something I can put my finger on. When I'm writing at my favorite time, I like… — Miller Williams Copy Share Image
I listen to jazz and gospel... yeah that's basically what I listen to. — Anwar Robinson Copy Share Image
I know that composers know my voice type and what songs will suit me. I have been able to mould my voice… — Javed Ali Copy Share Image
I've listened to Jazz since I was born and always knew I'd be a Jazz singer! — Jane Monheit Copy Share Image
Finally Beiderbecke came out with a silver cornet. He put it to his lips and blew a phrase. The sound came out… — Eddie Condon Copy Share Image
People comment on the way that I phrase. And in my 20s, I realized, my phrasing is jazz phrasing. I don't comply… — Brian Stokes Mitchell Copy Share Image
...to me if it's anything, jazz is a verb-it's more like a process than it is a thing. — Pat Metheny Copy Share Image
In New York, I was excited about the music in New York because the only music that I was more or less… — Ben E. King Copy Share Image
“Here, in this quiet place we own, worlds are born. ~Run the Voodoo Down~” — Cassandra Wilson Copy Share Image
I think cool originates with the jazz culture in the '40s. There was probably cool before that, but that's when people started… — Alissa Quart Copy Share Image
You know the actor John Garfield? In one movie he walked up to this train station, the ticket booth, and the guy… — Wayne Shorter Copy Share Image
I've gotten bored with jazz to the point where I wouldn't mind something bad happening. Slapping hurts, but at some point it'll… — Robert Glasper Copy Share Image
The Beatles came and everybody forgot about everything else. That was a friendly, together, hip interpersonal music, introducing electric sustain, and it… — Paul Bley Copy Share Image
I have been steadily exchanging a rock audience who were nervous about what they had just bought for a jazz audience who… — Bill Bruford Copy Share Image
My brothers came home with country, jazz, everything... it was always very normal to me to make any type of music. It… — Labrinth Copy Share Image
I was a total music nerd. I grew up on Perry Street in the '80s. My father wrote books about jazz, so… — Andrew Wyatt Copy Share Image
I had not been in the jazz environment, having been brought up in the church. But once I got to New York,… — Aretha Franklin Copy Share Image
I'm concerned with trend. I don't know where jazz fans will come from 20 years from now. — Norman Granz Copy Share Image
The word [jazz] never lost its association with those New Orleans bordellos. In the 1920s I used to try to convince Fletcher… — Duke Ellington Copy Share Image
I was always very leery of my piano playing. As a young kid, I wanted to be a jazz musician, but my… — Mike Stoller Copy Share Image
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