“March 6, 1961 I remembered a party in a house outside of Ann Arbor. There was a jazz band -- piano, bass,… — Leonard Michaels Copy Share Image
[On John Tunnard:] One day a marvelous man in a highly elaborate tweed coat walked into the gallery. He looked a little… — Peggy Guggenheim Copy Share Image
In college, I was able to be the vocalist for the jazz band at Arkansas State. — Ashley McBryde Copy Share Image
I've played drums since I was 15. My sisters and I all played instruments. I kind of started with piano and then… — Miles Teller Copy Share Image
The church we grew up playing at was not one of those churches known for its music, but it was just this… — Thundercat Copy Share Image
It was liberating to do comedy. It felt like playing in a jazz band. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
The jazz band's chief stimulus, of course, was the rise of the negro 'blues' and their exploitation by the negro song-writer, W.… — Bix Beiderbecke Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, in L.A., I went to these schools, Fairfax High School, Bancroft Junior High School, and they had… — Flea Copy Share Image
In the Bay Area, there was a resurgence of Dixieland jazz in the '40s - there was the Frisco Jazz Band, and… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
I was in a rock band; I was my own folk singer; I was in a death metal band for a very… — Kiesza Copy Share Image
I was in every band class I could get in, like after school jazz band and marching band, and that's where I… — Chad Smith Copy Share Image
I got my first set of drums when I was around 3. I went from band to marching band to Latin jazz… — Jeremih 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
I was 16 when I came to New York. I had graduated to a tenor banjo in the school jazz band, and… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
My songs were influenced not so much by poetry on the page but by poetry being recited by the poets who recited… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
I think the key that differentiates the good actors from the mediocre ones that are still trying to come up, is that… — Wesley Snipes Copy Share Image
“There are those, too, who are ethnically predisposed in favor of funerals, who recognize among the black drapes and dirges an emotionally… — Thomas Lynch Copy Share Image
If I don’t practice for a day, I know it. If I don’t practice for two days, the critics know it. And… — Louis Armstrong Copy Share Image
My brother Leon started it all. He played the piano. In school they made me leader of the orchestra because I played… — Louis Prima Copy Share Image
The aim of jazz is the mechanical reproduction of a regressive moment, a castration symbolism. 'Give up your masculinity, let yourself be… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
There were so many specific things from high school jazz band that I remembered: the conductor searching out people who were out… — Damien Chazelle Copy Share Image
I have a big love for jazz music. The only thing I hated about singing with a jazz band was having to… — Ashley McBryde Copy Share Image
At Carnegie Hall the Preservation Hall Jazz Band showed how easily it could hop from era to era. It could work like… — Jon Pareles Copy Share Image