My work has been marginalized as far as the jazz-business complex is concerned, or the contemporary-music complex. — Anthony Braxton Copy Share Image
Most customers, by the time the musicians reach the second set, are to some extent inebriated. They don't care what you play… — Charles Mingus Copy Share Image
I have a sketch of an idea and I never really talk about: perhaps do another jazz record, but with other elements… — Dianne Reeves Copy Share Image
I play it Kool, gettin to tour just like a jazz player. Your record player ain't nothin without the funky rhyme sayer. — Kool G Rap Copy Share Image
People sometimes say it takes a long time to become a Jazz fan, but for me it took about five seconds. — Pat Metheny Copy Share Image
Truth be told, I think jazz is a mind-set. It's not necessarily, like, this guy picked up a horn and did this… — Flying Lotus Copy Share Image
I like to say I listened to three genres of music growing up: classical, jazz and Taylor Swift. — Laufey Copy Share Image
Bach was a top harmonist geezer, which is why the jazz cats love him. — Nigel Kennedy 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 never thought that the music called "jazz" was ever meant to reach just a small group of people, or become a… — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
I've always written poetry but I didn't realise it was a therapy for me until I was maybe 15. That's when my… — Amy Winehouse Copy Share Image
I listen to either romantic classical music, Brahms or Beethoven or something like Mozart, or I go all the way contemporary and… — Ramin Djawadi Copy Share Image
Jazz music hashaunted America for seventy years.It has tempted us out of our lily-white reserve with its black promise of untrammeled joy. — John Clellon Holmes Copy Share Image
One of the interesting things an artist does is they keep rediscovering things, whether it's a jazz piece or a role you've… — Brian Stokes Mitchell Copy Share Image
I was very lucky, because when I was at school, I had a great music teacher who would just take out these… — Alasdair MacLean Copy Share Image
Jazz is the big brother of the blues. If a guy's playing blues like we play, he's in high school. When he… — B. B. King Copy Share Image
I think of my life as divided between a lot of different periods. I grew up in the country, but as I… — Reed Krakoff Copy Share Image
I think all of us begin as writers. I wanted to be a writer from the time I as eight, long before… — Gary Giddins Copy Share Image
It has been difficult to hold onto many paintings but I have retained a few. Possibly the current favorite is titled 'Big… — LeRoy Neiman Copy Share Image
We tried to make music that had a very diverse collection of genres - jazz, pop, Latin, even the blues. We tried… — Philip Bailey Copy Share Image
Through the dark days of legalized segregation and on into the civil rights era, jazz shone as a beacon for achieving interracial… — Randy Sandke Copy Share Image
My father had played cornet, although I never saw him play it. I found his mouthpiece when I was a kid. I… — Johnny Griffin Copy Share Image
As long as there is democracy, there will be people wanting to play jazz because nothing else will ever so perfectly capture… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
The music certainly plays a major role. You can be free enough to comfort each other, to touch each other, to embrace… — Cecil Williams Copy Share Image
