Like democracy itself, jazz has structure, but within it you can say almost anything. — Susan Rice Copy Share Image
It seems to me monstrous that anyone should believe that the jazz rhythm expresses America. Jazz rhythm expresses the primitive savage. — Isadora Duncan Copy Share Image
Shared leadership... is less like a an orchestra, where the conductor is always in charge, and more like a jazz band, where… — Phillip C. Schlechty Copy Share Image
The only reason they're out there is to see me fall into the damn orchestra pit. — Billie Holiday Copy Share Image
It's all about respect; he's looking for respect from his buddies. In the last one he just wanted to hang out, to… — John Leguizamo Copy Share Image
As much as I am hip-hop, I'm soul. As much as I am soul, I'm a turntablist. As much as I'm a… — DJ Jazzy Jeff Copy Share Image
My father is a jazz musician, so I grew up hearing jazz. My parents loved it, but I didn't like it. It… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
I want a church service with New Orleans funeral jazz music. I'd like people to say a few words about me and… — Paul Young Copy Share Image
I thought, If I'm gonna run a jazz club, if I've got Miles Davis' posters in my bar, I should at least… — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
It is Jazz's very nature to change, to develop & adapt to the circumstances of its environment. — Pat Metheny Copy Share Image
But if you want to be a songwriter-based musician, whether you play punk or rock or country or jazz, whatever, you have… — Amy Ray Copy Share Image
“Elevators are supposed to smell like urine. That's what make the jazz playing through the overhead speakers sound more authentic.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
My father was a jazz listener, and I think, at least before I was 5, I was not so into that. Although… — Wallace Shawn Copy Share Image
I hate Stanley Clark, but I have to admit he's playing Jazz whether I like it or not. — Lester Bangs Copy Share Image
My band, Miles Long, is a jazz-funk spoken word band. There's jazz sensibilities, but I'm a bass player, so I'm very much… — Malcolm-Jamal Warner Copy Share Image
Nothing else will ever capture the democratic process in sound as perfectly as Jazz. — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
I was into jazz even when I was a kid. My parents would play Ella Fitzgerald, George Shearing, and Dixieland music. I… — Page Hamilton Copy Share Image
All of us '60s pop stars came from old cities which had a jazz club, a folk club, a coffee house, and… — Donovan Copy Share Image
When I was in the Pussycat Dolls, I did study jazz and pop, but Latin and ballroom were not at all in… — Ashley Roberts Copy Share Image
I would love to make a real jazz album someday because I never have. But that's something I'm not in a rush… — Norah Jones Copy Share Image
Jazz hadn't given her many details of exactly what life in the Dent house had been like, but he'd told her enough… — Barry Lyga Copy Share Image
The people know more about [Jazz] in other countries than in America. America is the last country to know about anything, because… — Art Blakey 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
When I first played some Coltrane-type stuff on the 'Pimp a Butterfly' sessions, Kendrick got it immediately. 'I want it to sound… — Kamasi Washington Copy Share Image
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