They didn't dictate to me as to what kind of music that they wanted me to play or what tunes, what musicians… — Horace Silver Copy Share Image
I learned a lot about American history though jazz, and that's why I loved American history when I was in high school.… — Ron Cephas Jones Copy Share Image
No matter how much people want to pretend that they're embarrassed by it, that they don't watch it, everybody knows about it.… — CM Punk Copy Share Image
Once you start collecting records you learn more and more about jazz and blues. — John Mayall Copy Share Image
The whole rise of new adult contemporary music and smooth jazz was a nice surprise. — Kenny G Copy Share Image
I wasn't very aware of pop music because I attended an arts school. For me, it was all about jazz. — Norah Jones Copy Share Image
Jazz took too much discipline. You have to come in at the right place, which is different than me singing the blues,… — Etta James Copy Share Image
My mother was into opera and my father was into jazz, so there was a lot of jazz in the house where… — Chaka Khan 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
I believe in knowing all you can about the music and the people who made the music. I think it's much more… — Sonny Sharrock Copy Share Image
Hamp would ask me about tempos in the band: 'Jacquet,' he'd say, 'knock off that tempo.' A lot of jazz musicians didn't… — Illinois Jacquet Copy Share Image
From the small clubs of the Harlem Renaissance where he began playing saxophone to world tours for the biggest of the big… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
As a drumset player I look outside the typical canon of drums - jazz and rock. When I hear something like the… — Glenn Kotche Copy Share Image
To most white people, jazz means black and jazz means dirt, and that's not what I play. I play black classical music. — Nina Simone Copy Share Image
Even though I left for a year, I grew here as a Jazz man. If I'm fortunate enough to go into the… — Karl Malone Copy Share Image
Jazz is the false liquidation of art - instead of utopia becoming reality it disappears from the picture. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Sarah Vaughan was the Charlie Parker of the vocalists during the 1950s. — Roy Haynes Copy Share Image
The most important thing to do as an artist is to get out of your comfort zone and work with different people:… — Katie Noonan Copy Share Image
I don't know if the music moves forward anymore. I haven't heard anything for years - except refinement - coming out of… — Paul Smoker 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
