We played, jazz, blues, dixie, and it all came from the church. When I went to church, I would see the sisters… — Scatman Crothers Copy Share Image
You know, Equal Interest played at the Bell Atlantic Jazz Festival Awards and not one musician from that category was even thought… — Joseph Jarman Copy Share Image
The thing that is making jazz healthy today is that people are coming out of other backgrounds - from rock, folk, from… — Billy Taylor Copy Share Image
What I would really like to have been, given a perfect world, is a jazz pianist. I mean jazz. I don't mean… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I never started out as an R&B singer. I grew up on all types of music - jazz, rock, pop, country, folk… — Fantasia Barrino Copy Share Image
I'm too busy playing. When I'm playing I don't pay attention to who's listening. When I was listening I listened to symphony… — Charles Mingus Copy Share Image
Louis Armstrong is the master of the jazz solo. He became the beacon, the light in the tower, that helped the rest… — Ellis Marsalis, Jr Copy Share Image
I'd love to give my girls a traditional Thanksgiving with turkey and all that jazz, but we've raised them to love Tuscan… — Debi Mazar Copy Share Image
People behind the Iron curtain have such an incredible image of America and jazz. I expected to find a Gerry Mulligan or… — Gabor Szabo Copy Share Image
I have discovered three things which know no geographical borders - classical music, American jazz, and applause as the sign of the… — Jascha Heifetz Copy Share Image
Jazz is not about getting and playing whatever notes you want. It is about reworking themes in a manner that sounds good,… — John Kao Copy Share Image
Montreal was a very active jazz center until club owners started putting in strippers instead of music. Before long, there was nothing… — Oscar Peterson Copy Share Image
I'm a dancer, so I do four hours of dance a week of ballet, jazz, hip hop, contemporary. I also play the… — Ryan Newman Copy Share Image
Writing is a question of finding a certain rhythm. I compare it to the rhythms of jazz. Much of the time life… — Francoise Sagan Copy Share Image
You've got to learn your instrument. Then, you practice, practice, practice. And then, when you finally get up there on the bandstand,… — Charlie Parker Copy Share Image
Jazz told people about the special music that came out of America and about America in general and this kind of liberty… — Al Jarreau Copy Share Image
If you don't already know about jazz music, how would you be exposed? How would get an opportunity to find out if… — Esperanza Spalding Copy Share Image
If you ever saw All That Jazz [1979], Bob Fosse was kind of raised dancing in strip joints and the whole era… — David Copperfield Copy Share Image
When jazz is played in another nation, it is called American. When it is played in another country, it sounds false. Jazz… — George Gershwin Copy Share Image
There's such a cynicism about the phrase 'I laughed all the way to the bank.' It's as though money is what you're… — Artie Shaw Copy Share Image
A lot of young people want to become jazz singers, but there are not more jam sessions like there used to be.… — Dianne Reeves Copy Share Image
After the war, once the bop revolution had taken hold, there were all kinds of young musicians, talented young musicians, who were… — Gunther Schuller Copy Share Image
The "Highway 61" album [of Bob Dylan] was produced by Bob Johnston if I'm not incorrect. And Bob Johnston was an entirely… — Al Kooper Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, you listened to a certain genre. Now it's like, "I love indie rock, I love hip-hop, jazz,… — Jonathan Rhys Meyers Copy Share Image
The jazz clubs wind up having only rich tourists - the kids can't come. If they do, then they spend their entire… — John Scofield Copy Share Image
The whole thing of being in music is not to control it but to be swept away by it. If you're swept… — Bobby Hutcherson Copy Share Image
I love jazz because it's so American; you know it's our Only Original Art Form. It just goes against the greed of… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
And what happened was, it's the same thing an older, more successful writer of ficition might say to a student: write about… — Larry Coryell Copy Share Image
I grew up with music in the house. I was told I could sing as soon as I started talking. Everybody in… — Tracy Chapman Copy Share Image
I don't like to hear someone put down dixieland. Those people who say there's no music but bop are just stupid; it… — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
In the last few years I've been listening to jazz more than anything else. I listen to a lot of world music… — Serj Tankian Copy Share Image
I'd have no trouble being the barbecue kingpin of America. I'd just add it to all the other things I am: jazz… — Bobby Seale Copy Share Image
The blues. It runs through all American music. Somebody bending the note. The other is the two-beat groove. It's in New Orleans… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
Rip Rig + Panic that I joined, they were really influenced by jazz and blues and punk. So I think what happened… — Neneh Cherry Copy Share Image
I learned jazz; that comes from blues. I learned rock; that comes from blues. I learned pop; that comes from blues. Even… — Cyndi Lauper Copy Share Image
I like a very dark house, just black. I sit there and just think. Once I'm still and quiet inside, I'll begin.… — Bobby McFerrin Copy Share Image
There's no future without the past and anybody who doesn't really understand where jazz has come from has no right to try… — Cannonball Adderley Copy Share Image
I can show you that I have played with just about every jazz musician, every African musician, every blues musician. It's not… — Carlos Santana Copy Share Image
In 1908 Handy didn't know anything about the blues and he doesn't know anything about jazz and stomps to this day. I… — Jelly Roll Morton Copy Share Image
It took me twenty years study and practice to work up to what I wanted to play in this performance. How can… — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
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