I love that pre-mod jazz look of the late Fifties, the Steve McQueen style that influenced the British modernists. — Martin Freeman Copy Share Image
A jazz tune, melody, or composition is usually based on either a traditional twelve-bar, eight-bar, or four-bar blues chorus or on the… — Albert Murray Copy Share Image
You put music in categories because you need to define a sound, but when you don't play it on your so-called radio… — Afrika Bambaataa Copy Share Image
She's nobody's fool so I'm playing it cool as can be. I'll give it a whirl but I ain't for no girl… — Johnny Mercer Copy Share Image
That.s what Jazz music is all about.We started the Messengers because somebody had to mind the store for jazz.No America--no Jazz. It… — Art Blakey Copy Share Image
Blues is like the roux in a gumbo. People ask me if jazz always has the blues in it. I say, if… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
I visited New York in '63, intending to move there, but I noticed that what I valued about jazz was being discarded.… — Joe Sample Copy Share Image
Without the beat in the background, Jazz basically sounds like an armadillo was let loose on the keyboard — Bill Bailey 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
Somehow I suspect that if Shakespeare were alive today, he might be a jazz fan himself. — Duke Ellington Copy Share Image
Music had been going on a long time before that. You have to remember that before rock n' roll there were a… — Lemmy Kilmister Copy Share Image
We're the first technology-creating species. We use technology to extend our reach. We didn't stay in the caves, and we haven't stayed… — Jason Silva Copy Share Image
Jazz is a very democratic musical form. It comes out of a communal experience. We take our respective instruments and collectively create… — Max Roach Copy Share Image
Jazz is really 20th-century fusion music. You take West African harmony and rhythm, mix with European harmony, and boom! — Christian Scott Copy Share Image
Historians in the future, in my opinion, will congratulate us on very little other than our clowning and our jazz. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Jazz onstage is a very intimate exchange between everybody that's onstage. — Dianne Reeves 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
Los Angeles has always been overlooked as far as jazz, and just high-level music in general. But, like, my dad's a musician,… — Kamasi Washington Copy Share Image
Jazz comes from a tradition where it swings. Swing was the main ingredient of jazz. And once it loses the swing...well, that's… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
When I was a little kid wanting to play music, it was because of people like Pete Johnson, Huey Smith, Allen Toussaint,… — Dr. John Copy Share Image
I have a difficult relationship with jazz. My parents really love it, and I went to a school where jazz was considered… — Agnes Obel Copy Share Image
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