Growing up in Iceland, it was very beautiful, very safe, but quite isolated. There was something about jazz music that had a… — Laufey Copy Share Image
Jazz is the music of the body. The breath comes through brass. It is the body's breath, and the strings' wails and… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
I just love all the music. My grandma was a church organist for 40 years, and she got me into jazz music… — Zach Anner Copy Share Image
Truth of the matter is, jazz is American music. And that doesn't mean bebop. Jazz is really about improvising. All the music… — Jaimoe Copy Share Image
I'm a jazz musician by education and vocation, but I don't think jazz should [ dictate] what I want to do. — Dave Douglas Copy Share Image
I began to realize that some of the things Ornette Coleman had said about things being played three or fours ways, independently… — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
I know I’m an African-American, and I know I play the saxophone, but I’m not a jazz musician. I’m not a classical… — Anthony Braxton Copy Share Image
...people will go for anything they don't understand if it's got enough hype. They want to be hip, want always to be… — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
The most important thing I look for in a musician is whether he knows how to listen. — Duke Ellington Copy Share Image
I was devastated. I'm still devastated to this day. When talent like that disappears in a flash, you can't believe it. You… — Helen Merrill Copy Share Image
My father's rich, my momma's good looking. Right? And I can play the Blues. I've never suffered and don't intend to suffer. — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
I grew up in a home filled with music and had an early appreciation of jazz since my dad was a jazz… — Molly Ringwald Copy Share Image
I was being ridiculed for going to school... But, you see, I had looked hard at the other musicians and the whole… — Donald Byrd Copy Share Image
“Today you go into make a modern recording with all this technology. The bass plays first, then the drums come in later,… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
I would like to be a scholar in whatever I do, a scholar is never finished, he is always seeking and I… — Ahmad Jamal Copy Share Image
“This is why the classical of the jazz music station plays? to give a ground of meaning to our pain?” — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
I don't dig that two-beat jive the New Orleans cats play. My boys and I have to have four heavy beats to… — Count Basie Copy Share Image
It's one thing to just play a tune, or play a program of music, but it's another thing to practically create a… — Chick Corea Copy Share Image
A note can be as small as a pin or as big as the world, it depends on your imagination. — Thelonious Monk Copy Share Image
If someone has been escaping reality, I don't expect him to dig my music. — Charles Mingus 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
And more than anything, I like the improvisation of jazz. That's the same thing with DJ-ing. There's so much improvisation you can… — DJ Jazzy Jeff Copy Share Image
