Anytime a person can play the blues, he has a soul and he has a 'lift' to play anything else he wants… — Jimmy Rushing Copy Share Image
Jazz and blues fests are everywhere now, and Americana is going strong on college radio. What I'm hearing is an appreciation of… — Bonnie Raitt Copy Share Image
Jazz is not just music, it's a way of life, it's a way of being, a way of thinking. . . .… — Nina Simone Copy Share Image
Charlie Parker was the greatest individual musician that ever lived. Every instrument in the band tried to copy Charlie Parker, and in… — Gary Giddins Copy Share Image
Basketball, unlike football with its prescribed routes, is an improvisational game, similar to jazz. If someone drops a note, someone else must… — Phil Jackson Copy Share Image
The word [jazz] never lost its association with those New Orleans bordellos. In the 1920s I used to try to convince Fletcher… — Duke Ellington Copy Share Image
The talking shows are like free jazz. I'm just gonna go out there and blow with the idea of keeping it streamlined… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
I think we've all had enough of Coltrane saxophonists. There's a case of someone ruining a generation of saxophonists, as Louis Armstrong… — Paul Bley Copy Share Image
Nobody has ever been able to define Jazz satisfactorily. This is probably because anyone who was capable of doing so never really… — Mary Kingsley Copy Share Image
“In every sphere of social interaction, that hermeneutic leap—that ability to put yourself in the mind frame of the other—is a virtue… — Ted Gioia Copy Share Image
I was considered as a jazz man rather than as a blues player. There were no blues players-you played one sort of… — Alexis Korner Copy Share Image
My years of ballet and jazz dance lessons didn't make me any more graceful - they just helped keep me from bumping… — Toni Tennille Copy Share Image
As a singer, I've been criticized for sounding feminine. They say I don't belong in any category, male or female, pop or… — Jimmy Scott Copy Share Image
I love singing jazz. I don't like the idea that classical music should be over here and jazz should be someplace else.… — Jessye Norman Copy Share Image
I was really running a music school back then, because my band wasn't making any money. I keep talking about money, because… — Artie Shaw Copy Share Image
I studied classical music for a year. Then, I studied jazz for a year at the New School, and then I got… — Andrew Wyatt Copy Share Image
Ornette Coleman is doing the only really new thing in jazz since the innovations in the mid-forties of Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker,… — John Lewis Copy Share Image
I always told the people at Cal Arts that if they wanted me to do Jazz studies, first of all, there couldn't… — Charlie Haden Copy Share Image
For me it's the high-water mark of American culture - not so much contemporary jazz, which has become kind of academic, but… — Flea Copy Share Image
I take a jazz class and I also take just a regular exercise class with a man who gives me acupressure treatments.… — Jessica Lange Copy Share Image
In classical music, love is based on bitin' -- imitation. It's not based on interpretation. A jazz musician, if he plays someone… — Todd Boyd Copy Share Image
A gripper of a read . . . Silence revives the cliff’s-edge drama of those Jazz age climbs and drives home the… — Bruce Barcott Copy Share Image
All the jazz guys had interracial relationships, and even the ladies did. Over the years, interracial relationships have been a hip, almost… — Quincy Jones Copy Share Image
We grew up listening to a variety of music, such as Gospel/Christian, R&B old/new school, jazz, blues, Mozart, Mary Poppins, Frank Sinatra,… — Michelle Carter Copy Share Image
If it comes out sounding like Dixieland jazz or classical or punk or rock or even slightly metal, that's because that's where… — Ben Harper Copy Share Image
I always had a great appreciation for jazz, but I'm a very pedestrian musician. I get by. I like to think that… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
I used to try to play like [Miles Davis], and Miles caught me copying him one night at Birdland. He said, 'Hey… — Freddie Hubbard Copy Share Image
All music now, I think, is fair game for jazz musicians to interpret, and they have been. I would consider those songs… — Patricia Barber Copy Share Image
D.C. is a great place. The music, jazz, has always been great here, the restaurants have always been fantastic here. And there's… — George Lopez Copy Share Image
How can music without any words make you think? I listen to jazz when I'm doing something else. I use it for… — Eddie Murphy Copy Share Image
I was very thrilled to witness the workby my ol' buddy Jim Widner whose expertise in the field of jazz education proved… — Clark Terry Copy Share Image
People who love jazz musicians love us when we play what we want to play and we're starving. But as soon as… — George Benson Copy Share Image
I began to realize that some of the things Ornette Coleman had said about things being played three or fours ways, independently… — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
Jazz brought this sense of democracy where four guys come together and your name may be on the marquee, but in this… — Al Jarreau Copy Share Image
I remember my uncle, who was a jazz pianist, when we did Deep Purple 'In Rock,' he ran from the room screaming,… — Ian Gillan Copy Share Image
The lion's share of what I hear right now are people who, intentional or accidental, have avoided all jazz prior to 1960.… — Branford Marsalis Copy Share Image
We can all be grateful that there is a place like (University of) North Texas! North Texas has been unique among schools… — Peter Erskine Copy Share Image
And what gift of America to the rest of the world is actually most appreciated by the rest of the world? It… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
My first experience with music was my father, he was a stereo buff and he built his own little Hi-Fi center with… — Ronnie Montrose Copy Share Image
Karl Johnson, my first piano player at Milt Trenier's, he just swung really hard and gave me a sense of really belonging… — Kurt Elling Copy Share Image
![“The word [jazz] never lost its association with those New Orleans bordellos. In the 1920s I used to try to convince Fletcher Henderson that we ought to call what we were doing 'Negro music'. But it's too late for that now.” quote by Duke Ellington](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/faf/duke-ellington-7513_association_the-word-jazz-never-lost-its-association_1416186.jpg)
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