For me jazz is kind of an extension of hip-hop. Kind of the sad thing is that a lot of jazz people… — Jose James Copy Share Image
Now we also need people who just love to listen to the music. And we need people that want to work to… — Jon Gordon Copy Share Image
This music that was supposed to only come from tapes like in any restaurant. Something would happened. One bird will start to… — John Hench Copy Share Image
I listened to the radio, so I was influenced by everyone from Michael Jackson to Milli Vanilli. But thankfully my dad had… — Jason Mraz Copy Share Image
From jazz, the blues, country and rock to Hollywood movies, culture has in many ways been our greatest export (or our most… — Joy Reid Copy Share Image
I've gone the full spectrum - from gospel to blues to jazz to soul to pop - and the public has accepted… — Lou Rawls Copy Share Image
Dinner 'conversation' at the Cohens' meant my sister, mom, and I relaying in brutal detail the day's events in a state of… — Andy Cohen Copy Share Image
Composers don't just sit in a room and write things that are in their heads, they actually listen to a lot of… — Hilary Hahn Copy Share Image
My wife and I went and saw John McLaughlin years ago playing at some club, and it made me feel uncomfortable. It… — Cliff Williams Copy Share Image
Presley is country music, white music. Jazz is black music - it was invented by the blacks in New Orleans. And I'm… — Tony Bennett Copy Share Image
For some reason that only a sociologist might be able to accurately explain, the Brazilian Press was extremely unkind to me, reporting… — Astrud Gilberto Copy Share Image
Bill Monroe spoke of bringing 'ancient tones' into his music with echoes of British and Irish fiddle and bagpipe music, while also… — Paul Zollo Copy Share Image
Justin [Di Cioccio] was [at Laguardia School of Arts]. He later took over at Manhattan. But I knew Justin through the McDonald's… — Jon Gordon Copy Share Image
Free music is in a constant state of surprise and, consequently, presents no surprise at all. So, I'm not really a fan… — Pete La Roca Copy Share Image
Prior to Katrina, the South Bronx and New Orleans' Ninth Ward had a lot in common. Both were largely populated by poor… — Majora Carter Copy Share Image
Sometimes I see players that think, and you can tell they're thinking of the next phrase to play or the next thing… — Sonny Sharrock Copy Share Image
I like textures and tones. Sometimes, it will be a melodic feedback from a song or something. I like warm, ethereal sounds.… — Alexander Spit Copy Share Image
“Jazz was about the spaces between notes. It was about what happened when you listened to the thing inside you. The gaps… — Rachel Joyce Copy Share Image
Dave Rocha is a modern player out of the hard-bop tradition, with a beautiful sound and tremendous facility on the horn. You… — Dan Feiszli Copy Share Image
I always had this childhood image in the back of my mind of this fantastic place where all the things I liked… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
Amsterdam must have more than a million people. But the only area where jazz is really profitable and successful in an economic… — Norman Granz Copy Share Image
Being a hotbed of international travel, of course Panama's music is as diverse as its population. Throughout the '60s and '70s, it… — Anthony Fantano Copy Share Image
Hip-hop and jazz have always been intertwined. Even the G-funk thing. You listen to 'The Chronic,' there's flute solos and everything. It's… — Kamasi Washington Copy Share Image
The blues is the foundation, and it's got to carry the top. The other part of the scene, the rock 'n' roll… — Luther Allison Copy Share Image
Sometimes I wish I could walk up to my music as if for the first time, as if I had never heard… — John Coltrane Copy Share Image
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
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
Jazz is all about being in the moment. Whatever the music is making you feel, jazz gives you the freedom. That's the… — Christopher Jackson Copy Share Image
Shared leadership... is less like a an orchestra, where the conductor is always in charge, and more like a jazz band, where… — Phillip C. Schlechty Copy Share Image
I really didn't know a lot of rock 'n' roll until I moved to L.A. Before that, when I was in New… — Lenny Kravitz Copy Share Image
Some people try to get very philosophical and cerebral about what they're trying to say with jazz. You don't need any prologues,… — Oscar Peterson Copy Share Image
But no one, when you stop to think, has ever equated abstract expressionism as a movement with jazz music. It's based on… — Romare Bearden Copy Share Image
I don't really listen to a lot of stuff that sounds real similar to me because I work on that kind of… — Samuel Ervin Beam Copy Share Image
I'm asked so many times why I think there aren't more female instrumentalists in jazz. But I never think about it. And… — Hiromi Uehara Copy Share Image
Sometimes when I do a joke and it doesn't get a lot of laughs, it kind of feels like I'm doing jazz.… — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
Everyone wants to put people on, I think. And get away with it! That's the thing: put people on and get away… — Dizzy Gillespie Copy Share Image
My husband makes fun of me, because I know I can use strong prose to jazz-hand my way through plot that isn't… — Kelly Sue DeConnick Copy Share Image
When I started recording, I thought I'd be able to do all kinds of records: jazz, country, dance - and I've always… — Tom Jones Copy Share Image
There are a few things that I will hopefully be credited for as a pioneer. One is my four-mallet playing. Another one… — Gary Burton Copy Share Image
We're the first technology-creating species. We use technology to extend our reach. We didn't stay in the caves, and we haven't stayed… — Jason Silva Copy Share Image
![“Justin [Di Cioccio] was [at Laguardia School of Arts]. He later took over at Manhattan. But I knew Justin through the McDonald's band, which at the time I was finishing high school and starting college, I got involved with. I was not that heavily involved with the school at MSM my first year…” quote by Jon Gordon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/275/jon-gordon-1655_art_justin-di-cioccio-was-at-laguardia-schoo_2555432.jpg)
