“Where’s jazz going? I don’t know. Maybe it’s going to hell. You can’t make anything go anywhere. It just happens.” — Thelonious Monk Copy Share Image
The average age of the Jazz audience is increasing rapidly. Rapidly enough to suggest that there is no replacement among young people.… — Terry Teachout Copy Share Image
KKJZ is a very famous jazz station and there aren't many more around like them. — Frank Sinatra Jr Copy Share Image
I always say that the problem with jazz accessibility is not the content of the music, it's people's ability to access it. — Esperanza Spalding Copy Share Image
I listen to country music. I listen to jazz. I listen to R&B. I listen to Jimi Hendrix a lot. — Patty Smyth Copy Share Image
Clifford Brown was in the jazz circles considered to be probably the greatest trumpet player who ever lived. — Herb Alpert Copy Share Image
It wasn't hard coming off technical playing and playing the simplistic eighth notes the Ramones were known for. I'd always listened to… — Marky Ramone Copy Share Image
Electronic musicians are quite like writers or painters. They are quite isolated in their home studios. We often don't have that the… — Jean-Michel Jarre Copy Share Image
I tell my students, 'It's an important tradition and you have to go back and hear this music and learn its language… — Jackie McLean Copy Share Image
Most of the soloists at Birdland had to wait for Parker's next record in order to find out what to play next.… — Charles Mingus Copy Share Image
My primary influences were the best jazz players from the 50's and 60's and later some of the pop people from the… — Walter Becker Copy Share Image
The first jazz pianist I heard was Thelonious Monk. My father was listening to an album of his called 'Monk's Dream' almost… — Benny Green Copy Share Image
I fear that I won't get better and that I won't have time to practice. To be called a "jazz musician" -… — Esperanza Spalding Copy Share Image
A little bit if listening with a passable ear will get an awful lot of messages anywhere. — John Hendricks Copy Share Image
So for all that we might speak words in each other's vicinity, this could never develop into anything that could be called… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Europe was a very contentious subject in literature and yet jazz musicians still depended on Europe. Now it's not such a big… — Darryl Pinckney Copy Share Image
...I got a call from a record company offering me a contract, I did not want to take it because the Lord… — Alice Coltrane Copy Share Image
Jazz is improvisation and syncopation, with resilience and flow, with earthy elegance, nuance and subtlety, with the integrity of individual expression within… — Greg Thomas Copy Share Image
It helps me to learn things in different languages, even if it's just phonetically, and to make myself vulnerable to other audiences… — Kurt Elling Copy Share Image
Musical theater is an American genre. It started really, in America, as a combination of jazz and operetta; most of the great… — Rachel Bloom Copy Share Image
The jazz trombone is a magical experience particularly to hear and listen too. — John Jensen Copy Share Image
