I guess my biggest influence was actually my Grandfather. He used to play old records on vinyl, and would play old jazz… — Ella Henderson Copy Share Image
It's a shame that jazz is now being turned into dried fruit. It's becoming quantized, diced and defined. It's becoming an idiom.… — Pat Metheny Copy Share Image
It's the old-school jazz mentality that I connect with the most. I dig the idea of the seeker, the guy who's always… — Flying Lotus Copy Share Image
Playing solo with an audience for an hour and 30 minutes without a break means I have to, as the jazz cats… — Laurence Fishburne Copy Share Image
I don't listen to a lot of music when I have my free time. But I'll go to a jazz club and… — Joshua Bell Copy Share Image
You can't seperate modern jazz from rock or from rhythm and blues - you can't seperate it. Because that's where it all… — Art Blakey Copy Share Image
Now, jazz institutions are more readily available for young people, but for me, the institutions were the bands that I was in.… — Dianne Reeves Copy Share Image
You have to enjoy playing. The old-timers did, and that's one reason why their music is a lasting music. I feel that… — Barry Harris Copy Share Image
I'm moved by a lot of different kinds of music, whether it's pop music or R&B or straight-ahead jazz or free or… — David Sanborn Copy Share Image
I couldn't get my album played over the so-called smooth jazz stations. Jazz stations would not play it. You don't always know… — Roy Ayers Copy Share Image
Jazz is a music that really allows a person to express his deepest self, his most personal self - Africa being the… — Harold Land Copy Share Image
I suppose it was later on that I realized that there was some reaction among the musicians themselves, some of whom resented… — Ashley Kahn Copy Share Image
It wasn't hard coming off technical playing and playing the simplistic eighth notes the Ramones were known for. I'd always listened to… — Marky Ramone Copy Share Image
I really don't. I have truly eclectic taste in music and I seem to cycle through phases in terms of to what's… — Rachel Miner Copy Share Image
I began with dance, doing ballet at 3, then tap, jazz, modern. Then I sang in church choirs, learned how to play… — Samantha Barks Copy Share Image
I grew up with classical music blasting in my parents' living room and my older brother's practicing saxophone in his room listening… — Josephine de La Baume Copy Share Image
Thelonius Monk went over to Bird and Bud Powell and said, 'I told you guys to act crazy, but I didn't tell… — Charles Mingus Copy Share Image
Growing up, I listened to a lot of jazz and blues records - John Coltrane and Etta James. I was also really… — Alex Clare Copy Share Image
If you didn't have the amalgam of Blacks and African-type sensibility and European sensibility, you wouldn't have jazz. Even in the negative… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
It was the early days of Rock 'n' Roll in this country. We were all struggling to learn music, it might be… — Jim Sullivan Copy Share Image
My dad was into jazz, so there was a lot of Thelonious Monk and Duke Ellington playing in the house, but also… — Arlo Parks Copy Share Image
At 3 A.M., I'm still up watching videos of jazz heroes I never saw live. It's so thrilling. And not just the… — Bonnie Raitt Copy Share Image
Charlie Parker said, 'Jazz comes from who you are, where you've been, what you've done. If you don't live it, it won't… — David Dellinger 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
I think jazz is a bit gatekept. Personally, I think that everyone has space in them to enjoy jazz and jazz-adjacent music.… — Laufey Copy Share Image
The greatest contribution jazz has made in music has been to replace the role of the conductor with a member of the… — Elvin Jones Copy Share Image
“All is as if the world did cease to exist. The city's monuments go unseen, its past unheard, and its culture slowly… — Nathan Reese Maher Copy Share Image
You're just sort of searching for this 'thing' and sometimes you get it and sometimes you don't. All music is imperfect, but… — John Abercrombie Copy Share Image
When I play live in restaurants and cafes, I don't play my own stuff. I play jazz and 'American Songbook' standards, and… — Darren Criss Copy Share Image
My folks have played everything from rock, disco, pop, funk, and blues. My dad has always brought and played different genres like… — Haley Reinhart Copy Share Image
It's a weird thing where, especially in jazz, you have to totally mention cutting sessions and people one-upping each other and people… — Damien Chazelle Copy Share Image
My father is a jazz musician, so I grew up hearing jazz. My parents loved it, but I didn't like it. It… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
What I like is not a particular genre, it's storytelling. There's a lot of great storytelling in jazz, and in folk and… — Lizz Wright Copy Share Image
Improvisation in the jazz sense - like the business sense - is not formless. It is built on a skill set. Jazz,… — John Kao Copy Share Image
From blood banking to the modern subway, from jazz to social justice, the contributions of African Americans have shaped and molded and… — Bill Frist Copy Share Image
Anything you are shows up in your music - jazz is whatever you are, playing yourself, being yourself, letting your thoughts come… — Mary Lou Williams Copy Share Image
My greatest teacher was not a vocal coach, not the work of other singers, but the way Tommy Dorsey breathed and phrased… — Frank Sinatra Copy Share Image
I've learnt new scales through playing different types of music, like Indian raga scales, gipsy scales and harmonically-based jazz scales. — Nigel Kennedy Copy Share Image
I'm a big fan of gospel music, and you cannot be a fan of rock and roll, you cannot be a fan… — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
New Orleans jazz is a complex and embracing art form that began about the same time as the blues and encompassed many… — Tim Cahill Copy Share Image
