I understood jazz, I understood how it worked. That's what I apply to everything. — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
Diana Krall knocks me out. I like jazz and I like her simple approach. — Merle Haggard 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
I used to be a jazz snob, believe it or not. I sort of turned my nose up at anything more commercial. — Norah Jones Copy Share Image
There are a lot of records coming out, in every field of music, not just jazz. — Herbie Hancock Copy Share Image
The value of jazz still has to be clarified. People involve themselves with its superficialities without digging for its soul. — Stan Getz Copy Share Image
Me as an artist, I've ventured off into doing all types of music. I'll do a jazz album, you know what I… — Common Copy Share Image
If someone has been escaping reality, I don't expect him to dig my music. — Charles Mingus Copy Share Image
Angelo is a brilliant jazz talent. His receptivity, seriousness, his ability to execute ideas simple or complex, combined with his love and… — Mulgrew Miller Copy Share Image
“A real musician ain’t gonna choose his own guitar like an evil master choosing his slave. The guitar will choose his master… — Brenda Sutton Rose Copy Share Image
I do feel a responsibility because most people like me that are my age or younger, they don't quite make it over… — Robert Glasper Copy Share Image
He would catapult you forward, and that was his intention with the Jazz Messengers. He would take young people with a potential… — Benny Green Copy Share Image
As my career has progressed, I've had the pleasure of playing with the baddest jazz cats on the planet. But that doesn't… — George Benson Copy Share Image
Many people don't understand how disciplined you have to be to play jazz... And that is really the idea of democracy -… — Dave Brubeck Copy Share Image
I think myself, Jose James, and Robert Glasper are expanding the language - really reminding people that the umbrella of jazz is… — Gregory Porter Copy Share Image
Trust me, the only real way to understand 'Chic' is in highfalutin terms. Our chord progressions were based on European modal melodies.… — Nile Rodgers Copy Share Image
I loved music. Music was a big thing and so I started collecting records. I had a large collection of jazz records… — Robert Barry Copy Share Image
I started writing songs for youth theater and stuff, and so it's really writing music for the stage that started me out,… — Tim Minchin Copy Share Image
The music has gotten thick. Guys give me tunes and they're full of chords. I can't play them...I think a movement in… — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
Marijuana is a useful catalyst for specific optical and aural aesthetic perceptions. I apprehended the structure of certain pieces of jazz and… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
Jazz at Lincoln Center is something that is very necessary for the creative process. There's a couple of brothers running around New… — Wayne Shorter Copy Share Image
"Poetry" refers to the quite challenging and quite resistant sets of words put together to be admired and interpreted by people who… — Stephen Burt Copy Share Image
When I was a young teenager, it was all about The Clash for me and that sort of English punk stuff. Then… — Greg Kurstin Copy Share Image
Business today is all about improvisation, which is the essence of jazz. Perhaps in the past we could just follow the operating… — Josh Linkner Copy Share Image
