This all came of a conversation I had with [John] Steinbeck once when we were standing in a men's room somewhere. Steinbeck… — Eddie Condon Copy Share Image
Our past as well as our future. It could have been completely destroyed when we were brought to the New World as… — Randy Weston Copy Share Image
'Amores Perros' is rock, '21 Grams' is jazz, 'Babel' is an opera, and 'Biutiful' is a requiem. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
The cool thing is that jazz is really a wonderful example of the great characteristics of Buddhism and great characteristics of the… — Herbie Hancock Copy Share Image
Lately, my mind is like an orchestra. If you don't have the conductor, you don't know what to do. One guy is… — Goran Ivanisevic Copy Share Image
I think what we need is a more welcoming mode from the people who put on a hundred million country-western shows on… — Sonny Rollins Copy Share Image
What I came back to is that jazz is a music to be played and not to be intellectualized on. — Gerry Mulligan Copy Share Image
I just don't know anything about jazz, really. I've never really listened to it, but I'd definitely like to discover more about… — Michelle Ryan Copy Share Image
Miles Davis, my one and only real hero of my life. I met him [because] every time I had a movie interview,… — Peter Weller Copy Share Image
When I was in eighth standard, I have been dancing since then. I love to dance. Dance has been my life all… — Radhika Madan Copy Share Image
As I've grown older I've been more influenced by more meandering styles of guitar playing, whether it's Celtic or Ethiopian folk music… — Ted Leo Copy Share Image
One of the things I'm going to say out there is how grateful I am - and how grateful the world is… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
If you keep your head in the sand, you don't know where the kick's coming from. — Herbie Mann Copy Share Image
As far as I'm concerned, the essentials of jazz are: melodic improvisation, melodic invention, swing, and instrumental personality. — Mose Allison 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
There was a lot that was tricky about playing with [Thelonious Monk]. It's a musical language where there's really no lyrics. It's… — Roy Haynes Copy Share Image
A jazz musician is not a jazz musician when he or she is eating dinner or when he or she is with… — Herbie Hancock Copy Share Image
The trouble with most musicians today is that they are copycats. Of course you have to start out playing like someone else.… — Lester Young Copy Share Image
Early on I was more interested in gypsy jazz music until rock and roll came around and I listened to a lot… — Denny Laine Copy Share Image
There is something beautiful about a billion stars held steady by a God who knows what He is doing. (They hang there,… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
Around 2009, my audience started getting a lot more mainstream - younger people, R&B and hip-hop fans mixed in with the jazz… — Robert Glasper Copy Share Image
Basically my influences have been American influences. It's been blues, gospel, swing era music, bebop music, Broadway show music, classical music. It's… — Horace Silver Copy Share Image
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