Musicians like to converse. There's always interesting conversation with musicians - with classical musicians, with jazz musicians, musicians in general. — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
I grew up a huge Roy Orbison fan. He had such a crazy range. And I grew up listening to old jazz,… — Borns Copy Share Image
I still play jazz, and I've always got that trumpet very handy, but I'm coming to feel the classical venues are where… — Doc Severinsen Copy Share Image
I made a good living for a teenager. And I had to learn all different kinds of music - jazz, swing, Motown,… — Idina Menzel Copy Share Image
I think the Flecktones are a mixture of acoustic and electronic music with a lot of roots in folk and bluegrass as… — Bela Fleck Copy Share Image
[Jazz] is a music of freedom and wonder. It's our indigenous art form, and I'm still blessed to travel around the world… — Charles Lloyd Copy Share Image
If I can't play music, what am I gonna do? Music keeps people sane. When you enjoy yourself, most of the time… — Zoot Sims Copy Share Image
I can see forms and shapes in my mind when I solo, just as a painter can see forms and shapes when… — Elvin Jones Copy Share Image
We all listened to a lot of recorded music, especially American jazz, modern jazz, and that's where our studies were and our… — Evan Parker Copy Share Image
I love playing jazz because I love the freedom you have to improvise. It has given me a feeling in my classical… — Julian Bream Copy Share Image
That's the beauty of music. You can take a theme from a Bach sacred chorale and improvise. It doesn't make any difference… — Dave Brubeck Copy Share Image
[If] you don't have any soul and you don't have any talent, jazz is what you should do. ... any fool can… — Stewart Copeland Copy Share Image
I was really creative. I started to dance very young. I loved to dance. I begged my mother to put me into… — Laverne Cox Copy Share Image
Whether you like punk, grunge, or early rock and roll, there's probably something in there you've been living with your whole life… — Gregory Porter Copy Share Image
A jazz tune, melody, or composition is usually based on either a traditional twelve-bar, eight-bar, or four-bar blues chorus or on the… — Albert Murray Copy Share Image
Some people try to get very philosophical and cerebral about what they're trying to say with jazz. You don't need any prologues,… — Oscar Peterson Copy Share Image
I realized that what I was looking for was doing collaborations with other people - people who can play a ballad, rock,… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
I was listening to a lot of bebop. And to Miles Davis. Everyone thinks I was just in the folk world in… — Donovan Copy Share Image
What are the symbols of American strength, wealth, power and modernity? Certainly not jazz and rock and roll, not chewing-gum or hamburgers,… — Oriana Fallaci Copy Share Image
I've had experiences where people say, 'I hated jazz before I heard you guys!"I'm like, 'You didn't hate jazz before you heard… — Kamasi Washington Copy Share Image
Chico Hamilton told me, "The first take is important in jazz because that's where the real emotion is." That's your true response… — Jose James Copy Share Image
Well, the way I play, I try not to be a 'repeater pencil', ya dig? Originality's the thing. You can have tone… — Lester Young Copy Share Image
I do listen to more jazz and gospel than anything else, but my ears are still very much open and listening to… — Philip Bailey Copy Share Image
I do like classical music, and soft rock, and jazz, which I never listened to when I was 15. Now I like… — Dmitry Medvedev Copy Share Image
The way that we imitate each others' riffs is something that other bands don't do as much. If we're jamming with a… — Mike Gordon Copy Share Image
After Stalin died, the Soviet Union began inching toward the world again. The ban on jazz was lifted. Ernest Hemingway was published;… — Keith Gessen Copy Share Image
My short answer would be that there is no greatest jazz musician of the century. Jazz, like any valid art form, finds… — Bennie Wallace Copy Share Image
I grew up listening to Ravel, Debussy, Bartok and jazz like Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Cannonball Adderley, Charlie Christian and Django Reinhart.… — Allan Holdsworth Copy Share Image
A lot of EDM is not bad at all when it's simple, but a lot of it is not really musical. That's… — Zedd Copy Share Image
We always feel pretty creative as far as writing songs. We write them together; we just get in a room, or on… — Chad Smith Copy Share Image
My life has been going in ways I never could have dreamed of - doing the closing celebration for the Olympic Games… — Dianne Reeves Copy Share Image
President Obama just made his first presidential trip to the state of Utah. Obama spent his time in Utah just like you'd… — Jimmy Fallon Copy Share Image
I'm not a jazz singer, blues singer or country singer. I'm a singer that can sing rhythm & blues, that can sing… — Ray Charles Copy Share Image
There was a time, from 1935-1946, when teenagers and young adults danced to jazz-orientated bands. When jazz orchestras dominated pop charts and… — Scott Yanow Copy Share Image
If you really dissect hip-hop you will find a whole lot of Charles Mingus, Ron Carter, Ahmad Jamal, a lot of classic… — Robert Glasper Copy Share Image
My grandad was an opera singer, my uncle a jazz musician; I was a boy soprano in the church choir. But the… — Ian Gillan Copy Share Image
If income was directly proportional to technical proficiency and education, classical and jazz musicians would be some of the most affluent people… — Robert Emerson Coleman Copy Share Image
I grew up listening to a lot of classic jazz, and stuff like The Beatles, and old Motown stuff, and a lot… — Alison Sudol Copy Share Image
The whole world loves American movies, blue jeans, jazz and rock and roll. It is probably a better way to get to… — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
The difference between blues, jazz, rock n' roll and rap is that rap stayed poor. Even the white rappers are poor. It's… — Russell Simmons Copy Share Image
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