Jazz is all about improvisation and it's about the moment in time, doing it this way now, and you'll never do it… — Brian McKnight Copy Share Image
I was interested in Armstrong to begin with because he is the most important figure in Jazz in the 20th Century. There's… — Terry Teachout Copy Share Image
My life has always been my music, it's always come first, but the music ain't worth nothing if you can't lay it… — Louis Armstrong Copy Share Image
My dad loved jazz, so there was a little Miles Davis, Otis Redding, Donny Hathaway. My mum is French, so she'd listen… — Arlo Parks 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
You ask: What is it that philosophers have called qualitative states? I answer, only half in jest: As Louis Armstrong said when… — Ned Block Copy Share Image
I think Hollywood is in love with sequels. If it's successful once, just jazz it up and shoot it out there again.… — Paul Newman 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
In terms of exploring an identity in the country music world, what I realized very quickly was that there are people who… — Chris Carmack Copy Share Image
My own feelings about the direction in which jazz should go are that there should be much less stress on technical exhibitionism… — Booker Little Copy Share Image
Playing octaves was just a coincidence. And it's still such a challenge, like chord versions, block chords like cats play on piano.… — Wes Montgomery Copy Share Image
Growing up, I listened and was influenced by a lot of those around me. I have a big family, and my dad… — Ella Henderson Copy Share Image
I'd love to give my girls a traditional Thanksgiving with turkey and all that jazz, but we've raised them to love Tuscan… — Debi Mazar Copy Share Image
Everything that I'm doing, it's like a future jazz, future trap house movement. — Masego Copy Share Image
I learned mainly by listening to Andres Segovia and that was a great inspiration. And also the gypsy jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt. — Julian Bream Copy Share Image
You always come back to Duke Ellington - he's kind of like the thread that holds everything together from the big band… — Herbert Copy Share Image
'Soulfire' is a collection of stuff I've done in the past. Each song is an element of who I am: There's a… — Steven Van Zandt Copy Share Image
I was the kid at six who was like, 'I want to be in a jazz club.' I was never the pop… — Rachael MacFarlane Copy Share Image
We spent all day together [with Phil Wood] at that one particular lesson, which was maybe the third or fourth lesson, in… — Jon Gordon Copy Share Image
You look at somebody like Thurston Moore. Is he a noise dude? A punky dude? Is he a free jazz dude? He's… — Oneohtrix Point Never Copy Share Image
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