Most jazz players work out their solos, at least to the extent that they have a very specific vocabulary. — Lee Konitz Copy Share Image
This is one of the major purposes of soul and jazz music; to state what you feel. — Gregory Porter Copy Share Image
Y'know, I don't like jazz much. I'll put it on once in a while and listen, and I'll appreciate it. — Joe Perry 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
They're not particular whether you're playing a flat 5th or a ruptured 129th as long as they can dance. — Dizzy Gillespie Copy Share Image
I think jazz is actually quite unforgiving in its disdain for nostalgia. It demands creativity and change at its highest level. — Pat Metheny Copy Share Image
“jazz is punk for old people. I guess that explains it, because I don’t like punk, either.” — Gayle Forman Copy Share Image
Jazz is very much alive. Everywhere I go there's a new generation of musicians playing Jazz music. — Toots Thielemans Copy Share Image
If jazz education in our colleges were free to all it would provide thousands of good jobs in the music industry which… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
There are singers that I have enjoyed, from Nina Simone and Ray Charles onward. But the music that made music the number… — Robert Wyatt Copy Share Image
If we have to put music into baskets, then the progressive rock bands I fell in love with as a teenager made… — Gavin Esler Copy Share Image
The symphonic orchestras have sponsors, people who give them endowments, and I think it should be the same way with jazz -… — Lee Morgan Copy Share Image
Oh, I was a real Nirvana kid. I got into jazz because I listened to a lot of metal, Megadeth and that,… — Jamie Cullum Copy Share Image
I've been saying for almost 20 years that I need to do a jazz project and it ought to be either big… — Al Jarreau Copy Share Image
'Star Trek' scared me a lot more than 'White Jazz.' It terrified me, really. Because of the scale, the responsibility, the fact… — Chris Pine Copy Share Image
Jazz in itself is not struggling. That is, the music itself is not struggling... It's the attitude that's in trouble. My plays… — August Wilson Copy Share Image
Beginning in the sixties, but getting strong during the seventies and eighties, everybody was sort of Miles Davis and Chick Corea and… — Gilberto Gil Copy Share Image
“In a society of increasingly mass-produced, assembly-line entertainment, where every individual is treated like an empty pitcher to be filled from above,… — Marshall Stearns Copy Share Image
Shook is the musical universe I created. I come from a classical and jazz background and my father is a jazz pianist,… — Shook Copy Share Image
So many people report to be contemporary dancers, and they're not. They are sort of jazz dancers that feel like they're throwing… — Nigel Lythgoe Copy Share Image
The people in Japan love jazz music, man, and also in Europe, far more than they ever did here. And that always… — Milt Jackson Copy Share Image
I was in New York, miserable because I was working supper clubs but I wasn't expressing myself. I was really unhappy with… — Abbey Lincoln Copy Share Image
It's harder to build than destroy. To build is to engage and change. In jazz, we call progressing harmonies changes. Changes are… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
If I worried about that, I wouldn't have made a single record in my whole career. I think more and more, audiences… — Dave Douglas Copy Share Image
Jazz needs the help. It's the more sophisticated music. All the other music is on the TV, but jazz isn't. — Billy Higgins Copy Share Image
Jazz has the ability to absorb & transform influences from diverse musical styles. — Andrew S. Gilbert Copy Share Image
Jazz, of course, is our heritage. Jazz is a culture, it's not a fad. It's up to us to see to it… — Marla Gibbs Copy Share Image
I just don't know anything about jazz, really. I've never really listened to it, but I'd definitely like to discover more about… — Michelle Ryan Copy Share Image
I was never interested in singing in the church or school. I was more interested in becoming a musician. — Cassandra Wilson Copy Share Image
The chief trouble with jazz is that there is not enough of it; some of it we have to listen to twice. — Don Herold Copy Share Image
Tastes are created by the business interests. How else can you explain the popularity of Al Hirt? — Charles Mingus Copy Share Image
The jazz I love is sweet and pure with raw elements, which is exactly what the good hip-hop is doing now. — Amy Winehouse Copy Share Image
I was always a politician from the day the civil rights people chose me as their protest singer. — Nina Simone Copy Share Image
I am comfortable with anything I sing: jazz, gospel, classical. It doesn't matter. I can do it all. — Ruben Studdard Copy Share Image
Some kids went to the movies for escape. We found it with jazz. This is where we got religion. It was a… — John Densmore Copy Share Image
Some stances are just conducive to swinging. If I stand up straight for too long it's harder to swing. Plus my feet… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
It's not the style that motivates me, as much as an attitude of openness that I have when I go into a… — Herbie Hancock Copy Share Image
External instruments are only extensions of the biological instrument. — Yusef Lateef Copy Share Image
I took the frets out of my bass after I was getting into jazz a lot and I wanted to have that… — Jaco Pastorius Copy Share Image
