Grab your pig's feet, bread, and gin, there's plenty in the kitchen. I wonder what the poor people are eating tonight? — Fats Waller Copy Share Image
The basic difference between classical music and jazz is that in the former the music is always graver than its performance -… — Andre Previn Copy Share Image
I find as much inspiration from the forerunners of jazz as I do the modern-day innovators of jazz. — John Scofield Copy Share Image
Jazz is a music of great achievements but speed and chops serve a different function in jazz. — Marc Ribot Copy Share Image
Skiffle was blues featuring a washboard and acoustic instruments. It encompassed blues, with elements of folk, jazz, and, at times, American country-and-western… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
I'm not supposed to be playing, the music is supposed to be playing me. I'm just supposed to be standing there with… — Sonny Rollins Copy Share Image
I feel very, very gratified when people are complimentary to what I have done or appreciated it with sincerity... It makes me… — Elvin Jones Copy Share Image
When they say 'jazz,' I'm thinking of a word called 'the creative process.' It intersects every vein and tributary, avenue, path, that… — Wayne Shorter Copy Share Image
In Sweden we have a jazz festival, and I would try to see all these people like Angie Stone there when I… — Snoh Aalegra Copy Share Image
Sometimes when we're flying or in the hotel, I might run over songs, or in the bathroom. — Ella Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Hearing Marilyn Crispell play solo piano is like monitoring an active volcano. She is one of a very few pianists who rise… — Jon Pareles Copy Share Image
Can anybody be given creativity? No. Only equipment to develop it if it's in them in the first place. — George Shearing Copy Share Image
Punk and jazz are the opposite ends of the same spectrum because they are both looking for freedom and they give musicians… — Corinne Bailey Rae Copy Share Image
I'm thrilled when I hear the greatest jazz musicians. They continue to search in ways other musicians do not. — Kurt Elling Copy Share Image
I used to think that running an organization was equivalent to conducting a symphony orchestra. But I don't think that's quite it;… — Warren G. Bennis Copy Share Image
Jazz stopped being creative in the early '80s. After your acoustic era, where you had the likes of the Miles Davis Quintet,… — Robert Glasper 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
The blues and jazz will live forever... So will the Delta and the Big Easy. — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
I am viewed as the Negro who has gone outside of the categories assigned to me. — Anthony Braxton Copy Share Image
People like Art Blakey and Buddy Rich, you look at them playing music, and it's just like looking at a heavy metal… — Damien Chazelle Copy Share Image
The public, hearing pop music, is, without knowing it, also soaking up jazz. — Norman Granz Copy Share Image
