There's nothing to be gained, and much to be lost, in trying to bend every child to match a one-size-fits-all notion of… — Ezekiel Emanuel Copy Share Image
I have a difficult relationship with jazz. My parents really love it, and I went to a school where jazz was considered… — Agnes Obel Copy Share Image
A portrait of the young Charlie Parker with a degree of vivid detail never before approached. . . [Kansas City Lightning is]… — Tom Piazza Copy Share Image
In 1962 I wrote for 'Jazz News,' using the pseudonym Manfred Manne, which I picked because of a jazz drummer with that… — Manfred Mann Copy Share Image
Paris, the City of Light, never fails to enchant. With its jazz clubs, music in the streets, outdoor restaurants. The clatter of… — Carol Drinkwater Copy Share Image
We grew up with musicians coming over jamming. We had tons of instruments. So holidays were always like, 50 people would come… — Elisabeth Moss Copy Share Image
At this stage of my life, I've dedicated myself to playing what I want to play, how I want to play it… — Chico Hamilton Copy Share Image
Jazz is more raw than punk in a lot of ways. It's so expressive. A lot of people say to me, especially… — King Krule Copy Share Image
People who worked with me or knew me still called me the 'world's fastest human' because I almost never stopped. I'd found… — Jesse Owens Copy Share Image
I think the key that differentiates the good actors from the mediocre ones that are still trying to come up, is that… — Wesley Snipes Copy Share Image
I'm always scouring the universe for great old instruments from the '50s and early '60s. That's really, for me, the golden age… — Geddy Lee Copy Share Image
People ask me: ‘What is punk? How do you define punk?' Here's how I define punk: It's a free space. It could… — Ian MacKaye Copy Share Image
Commercial jazz, soap opera, pulp fiction, comic strips, the movies set the images, mannerisms, standards, and aims of the urban masses. In… — C. Wright Mills Copy Share Image
At Carnegie Hall the Preservation Hall Jazz Band showed how easily it could hop from era to era. It could work like… — Jon Pareles Copy Share Image
Fitzgerald could sense that America was poised on the edge of a vast transformation, and wrote a novel bridging his moment and… — Sarah Churchwell Copy Share Image
My school music teacher, Al Bennest, introduced me to jazz by playing Louis Armstrong's record of "West End Blues" for me. I… — Bill Crow Copy Share Image
Dave Rocha is a mature and eminently musical improviser. His sumptuous tone and cafefully chosen notes embody real musical thought. His performance… — Frank Hanny Copy Share Image
Until I was about 16 years old, my dream was to be a musician. I played in rock bands and jazz bands.… — Simon Helberg Copy Share Image
As far as being a 'player's player,' you've only got to go to Nashville or Argentina and you can forget about it.… — Mark Knopfler Copy Share Image
As a child brought up in Paris, I dreamed of America, that lost world my parents had left behind - it was… — Alexandre Desplat Copy Share Image
I always tell people, it took me 10 minutes and 35 years in the business. I get tired of playing it ["Lullaby… — George Shearing 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
When I have to compete with John Coltrane and Miles Davis and Louie Armstrong on iTunes, which I'm doing now, that's a… — Robert Glasper Copy Share Image
I think Hollywood is in love with sequels. If it's successful once, just jazz it up and shoot it out there again.… — Paul Newman Copy Share Image
Really, improv is all about creating for what's around you, in the moment, so it fits in a way that you can't… — John Ratzenberger Copy Share Image
Everybody has the blues. Everybody longs for meaning. Everybody needs to love and be loved. Everybody needs to clap hands and be… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Jazz really does try to include everything. It's always been popular music. But the wonderful thing about jazz is its willingness to… — Madeleine Peyroux Copy Share Image
Jazz is about freedom within discipline. Usually a dictatorship like in Russia and Germany will prevent jazz from being played because it… — Dave Brubeck Copy Share Image
I'm interested in music, not in my image. If someone plays something fantastic, that I could never have thought of, it makes… — Ornette Coleman Copy Share Image
If you truly have expertise - and expertise can be say a chess master who has really mastered something or an artist… — Sheena Iyengar Copy Share Image
Maybe a part of me recognized how right the improvising spirit of jazz is. Not the sounds, but the freedom to work… — Jane Siberry Copy Share Image
Lars Ulrich is not a jazz drummer, but he grew up listening to jazz. Why? Because his father, Torben - an incredible… — Robert Trujillo Copy Share Image
I've purposely made my music to be challenging and different. There's some electronics, R&B, blues, Motown, country, jazz and lots of soul. — Jack Garratt Copy Share Image
If I was not a film-maker I'd probably be a musician. I like Kanye West, Jay-Z, R&B, classical, jazz and all kinds… — Kasi Lemmons Copy Share Image
Amy [Winehouse] changed pop music forever, I remember knowing there was hope, and feeling not alone because of her. She lived jazz,… — Lady Gaga Copy Share Image
[Manhattan School Of Music] were kind of just getting the jazz program up and going when I first started there. I was… — Jon Gordon Copy Share Image
Ninja has definitely kind of changed its identity since it first started out. Ninja back in the day was always turntables and… — Bonobo Copy Share Image
I love all types of music - jazz, great pop music, world music and folk music - but the music I listen… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
The only reason is that I hadn't seen The Modern Jazz Quartet perform live and a live performance is often where the… — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Copy Share Image
Of course, right away I got more interested in the far-out jazz than the traditional jazz, so I quickly was turned onto… — Jherek Bischoff Copy Share Image
![“A portrait of the young Charlie Parker with a degree of vivid detail never before approached. . . [Kansas City Lightning is] a deft, virtuosic panorama of early jazz. . . This is a mind-opening, and mind-filling, book.” quote by Tom Piazza](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/753/tom-piazza-46948_book_a-portrait-of-the-young-charlie-parker-w_1236687.jpg)
![“I always tell people, it took me 10 minutes and 35 years in the business. I get tired of playing it ["Lullaby of Birdland"], but not of collecting the royalties.” quote by George Shearing](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/5df/george-shearing-24479_business_i-always-tell-people-it-took-me-10-minut_2286122.jpg)
![“Amy [Winehouse] changed pop music forever, I remember knowing there was hope, and feeling not alone because of her. She lived jazz, she lived the blues.” quote by Lady Gaga](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/f9f/lady-gaga-359_addiction_amy-winehouse-changed-pop-music-forever_2374146.jpg)
![“[Manhattan School Of Music] were kind of just getting the jazz program up and going when I first started there. I was 17 in September of 1984 when I started there.” quote by Jon Gordon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/6c2/jon-gordon-1655_firsts_manhattan-school-of-music-were-kind-of-j_2051074.jpg)
