Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music. — Nina Simone Copy Share Image
Acting is like music and you improvise. It's like jazz, there's no rhyme or reason to it. It's not a plan. You… — Denzel Washington Copy Share Image
A jazz musician is a combination orator, dialectician, mathematician, athlete, entertainer, poet, singer, dancer, diplomat, educator, student, comedian, artist, seducer, public masturbator,… — Steve Lacy Copy Share Image
Jazz music by its very nature is just a conglomerate of a lot of different kinds of music. — David Sanborn Copy Share Image
In World War II, jazz absolutely was the music of freedom, and then in the Cold War, behind the Iron Curtain, same… — Herbie Hancock Copy Share Image
I think we're an inspiration to young people, to know they can be honest and not run away from influences that are… — Robert Glasper Copy Share Image
I've purposely made my music to be challenging and different. There's some electronics, R&B, blues, Motown, country, jazz and lots of soul. — Jack Garratt Copy Share Image
To get the music the way you want it, there's a lot of work involved. — Dave Kikoski Copy Share Image
“By the way, this tells you why Auto-Tuned vocals on many contemporary records sound so shallow and lifeless. It’s almost as if… — Ted Gioia Copy Share Image
Jazz is all about being in the moment. Whatever the music is making you feel, jazz gives you the freedom. That's the… — Christopher Jackson Copy Share Image
Learn to play the piano, man, and then you can figure out crazy solos of your own. — Dizzy Gillespie Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, I wanted desperately to be a jazz musician. I would practice the trumpet for hours, but when… — Zach Woods Copy Share Image
It never gets boring for me because there's so many different things to explore in the studio. The studio's become the sanctuary… — Mac Miller Copy Share Image
That's the thing: There are so many art songs in jazz. It's a much more rich experience for the singer than people… — Kurt Elling Copy Share Image
I don't separate one era of jazz from another, because I listen to everybody... Everybody takes from everybody else and adds their… — Sonny Criss Copy Share Image
It wasn't until I got older that when they started putting only one form of music on the stations where I grew… — Uncle Kracker Copy Share Image
Charlie Parker was the greatest individual musician that ever lived. Every instrument in the band tried to copy Charlie Parker, and in… — Gary Giddins Copy Share Image
... The 'cleverness' syndrome has taken the place of melody. It's like everyone has come down with this terrible disease in jazz....you… — Keith Jarrett Copy Share Image
I've been YouTube surfing a lot lately so I'll Shazam a song that I find or some s - - and type… — Earl Sweatshirt Copy Share Image
Once there was Louis Armstrong blowing his beautiful top in the muds of New Orleans; before him the mad musicians who had… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
