I think of myself as a jazz player, and my music as a natural extension of the jazz tradition. What I'm doing… — Richard Grossman Copy Share Image
I started playing sax when I was fourteen because I'm like a real competitive person when it comes to winning girls attention.… — Masego Copy Share Image
The first time I heard a professional jazz quartet practicing in a house down the street it was almost like an out-of-body… — Philip Bailey Copy Share Image
When I was a teenager, I dreamed of being an opera singer like Maria Callas or a jazz singer like June Christy… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I feel that Jazz improvisation is the ultimate. You have to create on the spot, the essence of this music. — Sonny Rollins Copy Share Image
My music isn't anything but me. It has jazz in it, and rock'n'roll, and it has an urgency to it. — Neil Young Copy Share Image
Music was our wife and we loved her. We stayed with her, clothed her and put diamond rings on her hands. — Lionel Hampton Copy Share Image
Let me whisper it. Let me sigh it. Let me sing it, my dear or I will cry it. — Shirley Horn Copy Share Image
To me, all guitar players can play, because I know they're getting to where they're at. It's a very hard instrument to… — Wes Montgomery Copy Share Image
I always say that you should just listen to it and see what you think it sounds like it is. I don't… — Tinsel Korey Copy Share Image
What I love about Sonny's playing is that he is so inventive within the mainstream Jazz vernacular. Because he knows so many… — Pete La Roca Copy Share Image
A lot of young people want to become jazz singers, but there are not more jam sessions like there used to be.… — Dianne Reeves Copy Share Image
I can count on one hand the number of instrumental hits there have been over the last 10 years. — Chuck Mangione Copy Share Image
I discovered early in life that if you take gym first period, you can go into the wrestling room and sit in… — Paul Desmond Copy Share Image
Jazz is the big brother of the blues. If a guy's playing blues like we play, he's in high school. When he… — B. B. King Copy Share Image
My mother sang jazz and opera - she even performed at the Apollo on Amateur Night. — Rakim Copy Share Image
I was exposed to jazz and blues and gospel and country music and rock, and I was the only kid I knew… — Steve Miller Copy Share Image
All the forms of popular music from jazz to hip-hop, to bebop, to soul [come from black innovation]. You talk about different… — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
He didn't say nothing. He would just do things. He never said nothing or explained nothing. He just would do it and… — Pharoah Sanders Copy Share Image
I have a very varied taste in music. Everything from rap to classical to Latino to Rat Pack to jazz. — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
