Obviously the music I listened to growing up helped create my musical pallet. My parents were into pop, soul, disco, RNB, Latin,… — Jonas Blue Copy Share Image
Dealing with Jazz at Lincoln Center and its board of directors, who are so great, and then seeing how these Rock Hall… — Steve Miller Copy Share Image
I play piano, and I was really, really obsessive about playing piano in high school. I don't know if that's nerdy, but… — Simon Helberg Copy Share Image
I was curious and hungry at a young age, and jazz was such a mystery to me, an ocean where you can… — Paula Cole Copy Share Image
I mix everything up. A museum curator once said to me that there is a great jazz component to the way I… — Iris Apfel Copy Share Image
I work with many jazz artists as Miles Davis, Laughlin, etc.. One of the things all these artists had in common is… — George Duke Copy Share Image
I'm not a pop singer; I'm not a jazz singer. And I know I sing like not a whole lot of people… — Brian Stokes Mitchell Copy Share Image
I have met some very strange people and some very strange cats - and I'm not talking about jazz greats. I'm talking… — Robin Leach Copy Share Image
The church we grew up playing at was not one of those churches known for its music, but it was just this… — Thundercat Copy Share Image
The jazz rhythm won't be understood by the bulk of my audience. That's the problem. We can get away with maybe one… — George Benson Copy Share Image
I've always loved black culture; I don't know any other way to put it. Since I was a kid I loved music… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
Purple - I mean, the music and the influence and the subliminal touches range from orchestral conversation to jazz to blues and… — Ian Gillan Copy Share Image
I read an interview with a Japanese freestyle jazz musician once, and he said something like, "Everything I'm going to tell you… — Paul Beatty Copy Share Image
Sure, I could have lots of people who do the cooking, the driving, all that jazz - but I would be unhappy.… — Kate Winslet Copy Share Image
You can be up to your boobies in white satin, with gardenias in your hair and no sugar cane for miles, but… — Billie Holiday Copy Share Image
I have a huge record and cd collection of all kinds of great classical, jazz and all music but I find the… — Aaron Zigman Copy Share Image
Because we grew up in Australia, to find information about a lot of blues guys, I used to go to the library… — Angus Young Copy Share Image
Life is too full of distractions nowadays. When I was a kid we had a little Emerson radio and that was it.… — Stan Getz Copy Share Image
Many fail to realize this great recording industry was built by so-called jazz artists. And at the other end of the spectrum,… — Ahmad Jamal Copy Share Image
When comedy is good, it's jazz. The beats of it, the looseness, the improvisational part, the music-the way you hit the inflection,… — Billy Crystal Copy Share Image
I hate the bloody highways. I hate hamburgers, I hate Greyhound buses. I'd have liked to have been in America during the… — Shane MacGowan Copy Share Image
We had common interests in the beauty of the French language. We both had a tremendous love of jazz. We shared dreams… — David Amram Copy Share Image
I was in a rock band; I was my own folk singer; I was in a death metal band for a very… — Kiesza Copy Share Image
Cicadas, buckling and unbuckling their stomach muscles, yield the sound of someone sharpening scissors. Fall field crickets, the thermometer hounds, add high-pitched… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
Funk could very easily be called jazz, but you call it funk. Does that really matter? People dig that they associate themselves… — Kamasi Washington Copy Share Image
New Age is a very small box. It was a term that was brought in by the music industry to classify music… — Yanni Copy Share Image
The tapes we were making would jump around with different styles, just quick parts of different songs. Hip-hop to jazz to funk… — Ad-Rock Copy Share Image
Now, the instrumentation in the jazz band and the jazz dance band has gone through many evolutions. For instance, in the 'twenties… — Gerry Mulligan Copy Share Image
There were a lot of R&B groups that were my heroes, but the funny thing about my career and the way it… — Frankie Valli Copy Share Image
The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician. Things like old folks singing in the moonlight in the back… — Louis Armstrong Copy Share Image
When I was 12, I was doing competitive jazz, tap and ballet in Michigan. The studio put the best dancers together, and… — Jillian Rose Reed Copy Share Image
One of the reasons I believe in jazz is that the oneness of man can come through the rhythm of your heart.… — Dave Brubeck Copy Share Image
Jazz came out of New Orleans, and that was the forerunner of everything. You mix jazz with European rhythms, and that's rock… — The Edge Copy Share Image
It falls in all the cracks, from classical music to jazz,. Anywhere there's a hole in the floor, my music falls through… — Allan Holdsworth Copy Share Image
My grandma was a church organist for 40 years, and she got me into jazz music and great songwriters, Harold Arlen, George… — Zach Anner Copy Share Image
I think L.A. has one of the most innovative and forward-thinking jazz scenes in the world. New York definitely has the volume… — Kamasi Washington Copy Share Image
People always ask, "Why jazz?" and I'm like "Why not?" It's kind of like asking Seurat, "Why so many dots?" I imagine… — Melody Gardot Copy Share Image
Our approach is more the jazz approach, where you learn to play your instrument as well as you can, develop your craft,… — Butch Trucks Copy Share Image
For me personally - because I do it myself - the scoring of a picture is fun. I edit the picture and… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
Whether I do jazz or R&B, there are always complaints. I would just listen to the complaints about what I do instead… — Ledisi Copy Share Image
