People like Art Blakey and Buddy Rich, you look at them playing music, and it's just like looking at a heavy metal… — Damien Chazelle Copy Share Image
Everything we did, we did live - and then Bobby took it home and chopped it up and edited it. Which is… — Charlie Hunter Copy Share Image
I do all the classics, like Dylan, Kristofferson, Jimmy Reed, Mexican mariachi songs, some jazz songs from the '30s. Cole Porter's 'Begin… — Harry Dean Stanton Copy Share Image
My aunt Ruth Brown was a jazz musician. I got hooked on it at a young age, understanding what John Coltrane was… — Rakim Copy Share Image
I finally realized that my relaxation is practicing the piano and writing. I've tried to do other things, but I've learned through… — Andrew Hill Copy Share Image
I played Big Band jazz music. I wasn't into rock and roll. I was just there because it was a living. I… — Bobby Vinton Copy Share Image
The real power of Jazz is that a group of people can come together and create improvised art and negotiate their agendas...… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
I believe that regardless of how many people you've listened to or emulated over the years, your sound is you and what… — Clark Terry Copy Share Image
From it's inception Beat poetry was hailed as "something NEW" and "like all good spontaneous jazz, newness is acceptable and expected -… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
I was a beginner again. I practiced hard and used to listen very closely to recordings of American jazz drummers such as… — Jamie Muir Copy Share Image
You know, it's funny... when you're making money, people don't think you're playing jazz. Now when you're not making money, people think… — Pete Fountain Copy Share Image
I can only be me. I do what I do, I'm not a jazz player. ... I don't play jazz standards, at… — Jorma Kaukonen Copy Share Image
I could hear music playing in the background of works by certain authors, like Poe and Shakespeare. And I discovered Nikki Giovanni… — Jill Scott Copy Share Image
A dancer is a dancer. If I can do jazz, then I can also do modern jazz, break and Hindi dance also.… — Arshad Warsi Copy Share Image
When I was about 18, I really started diving into Dave Matthews Band and John Mayer Trio and some of those things… — Lauren Daigle 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
Live action writers will give you a structure, but who the hell is talking about structure? Animation is closer to jazz than… — Ralph Bakshi Copy Share Image
To me I grew up watching 'All That Jazz' and 'Cabaret,' and when I was younger 'Mary Poppins',' The Sound Of Music,'… — Michael Gracey Copy Share Image
With rock music, the amount of power that you can generate, the intensity behind the intentions of your lyrics that you can… — Serj Tankian Copy Share Image
The technical history of modern harmony is a history of growth of toleration by the human ear of chords that at first… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“Now listen for your song. Everybody’s got a song. When I used to chase the Trane— John Coltrane that is— he used… — David Mutti Clark Copy Share Image
You know the actor John Garfield? In one movie he walked up to this train station, the ticket booth, and the guy… — Wayne Shorter Copy Share Image
My dad loved jazz, so there was a little Miles Davis, Otis Redding, Donny Hathaway. My mum is French, so she'd listen… — Arlo Parks Copy Share Image
I played the drums. I basically started off in drum line. So it was just straight percussion. Then I got into the… — Jrue Holiday Copy Share Image
I know jazz is completely un-American. But the reason why America doesn't like it is because it's not funny. We [americans] have… — Paul Provenza Copy Share Image
I know it sounds silly, but it takes some time getting used to all the cameras in your face. I think it's… — Monica Raymund Copy Share Image
On set, the playground for the character, how much it takes varies. Is it like ballet, is it like jazz? The content… — Paul Dano Copy Share Image
Soho has got to be at its centre. It's got such a history for rock, pop, poetry, jazz, writers, all those things,… — Marc Almond Copy Share Image
I listen to all those kinds of music, from classic soul to hip-hop to Brazilian music to, you know, jazz to indie… — John Legend Copy Share Image
I consider myself a jazz singer. I think I stick to the roots of improvisation, singing in front of the beat, behind… — Gregory Porter Copy Share Image
Some guys said 'Here's bop!' Wham! They said, 'Here's something we can make money on!' Wham! 'Here's a comedian!' Wham! Here's a… — Charlie Parker Copy Share Image
I've played with all of the heavyweights in the modern jazz, progressive jazz movement. I've been fortunate enough to play with them,… — Sonny Rollins Copy Share Image
Jazz speaks for life. The Blues tell the story of life's difficulties, and if you think for a moment, you will realize… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I'm just writing love songs. I'm not trying to be pop. I'm not trying to be jazz. I'm not trying to be… — Adele Copy Share Image
I'd actually been making my living as an organist with bands since I was probably 15 or 16 years old, and then… — Bobby McFerrin Copy Share Image
The life of the arts is far from an interruption, a distraction, in the life of a nation, is close to the… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
It is evidently known, beyond contradiction, that New Orleans is the cradle of Jazz and I, myself, happened to be the creator… — Jelly Roll Morton Copy Share Image
Frankie Randall is a consummate performer. He is an exquisite jazz pianist and wonderful singer. I had the great pleasure to work… — Lainie Kazan Copy Share Image
People were saying that Southern folk song was dead, that the land that had produced American jazz, the blues, the spirituals, the… — Alan Lomax Copy Share Image
Jack Harlow's 'What's Poppin' is a 2020 bop, but there's a lot of Whiteness to unpack when he felt the need to… — Jason Johnson Copy Share Image
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