The jazz chord substitutions in a country song... that was another thing that bent people's ears. I guess that my favorites are… — Brian Setzer Copy Share Image
Jazz is such a powerful cultural statement that it's almost as if it's intertwined with society. — Tom Harrell Copy Share Image
Each time I leaped I seemed to touch the sky and when I regained earth it seemed to be mine alone. — Josephine Baker Copy Share Image
I teach in M.F.A. programs now, and I think that's a great way to become a novelist, but I mourn that Pete… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
Jazz of the sort we play is a happy, extroverted music. You don't have to think about it too much. — Chris Barber Copy Share Image
It falls in all the cracks, from classical music to jazz,. Anywhere there's a hole in the floor, my music falls through… — Allan Holdsworth Copy Share Image
I've always romanticized the late '40s and '50s - the cars, jazz, the open roads and lack of pollution. Now there are… — Garrett Hedlund Copy Share Image
I was really creative. I started to dance very young. I loved to dance. I begged my mother to put me into… — Laverne Cox Copy Share Image
Jazz is the greatest American art form and our greatest export. We don't pay attention to the youth of jazz, don't stoke… — Talib Kweli Copy Share Image
I was really fortunate growing up to have a broad musical education. My parents listened to all kinds of music, rock, soul,… — Mayer Hawthorne Copy Share Image
His musical inspiration operates in a world uncluttered by conventional bar lines, conventional chord changes, and conventional ways of blowing or fingering… — Gunther Schuller Copy Share Image
Jazz changes and all. But I don't know the names of what it is I'm doing. — Stevie Ray Vaughan Copy Share Image
“Jazz, like left-wing politics and 'the common man', was a cause .” — Martin T. Williams Copy Share Image
In order for a musician to grow, he's got to pay his dues. Some musicians ask me, 'well, what do you mean?… — Woody Shaw Copy Share Image
"Cannonball Adderley said, 'First 20 minutes we'll jazz out, then the last hour it's gonna be songs that people paid to see.'… — Robert Glasper Copy Share Image
I started off with the flute and French horn, and then I was playing trumpet in the jazz band. — KiKi Layne Copy Share Image
Jazz, for me, is a closed circuit, like the term baroque in the world of classical music. — Jan Garbarek Copy Share Image
All forms are complex once you get to a really high level, and jazz and hip-hop are so connected. In hip-hop, you… — Kamasi Washington Copy Share Image
“The Schnauzer listens to jazz. I listen to jazz because he likes it, and I have even gone to jazz concerts with… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
Jazz songs have always been quite literal because many of them are taken from musical theater and you only have a couple… — Laufey Copy Share Image
Jazz is a racist musical form invented by whites to enslave blacks. — Lyndon LaRouche Copy Share Image
