If you don't already know about jazz music, how would you be exposed? How would get an opportunity to find out if… — Esperanza Spalding Copy Share Image
At this stage of my life, I've dedicated myself to playing what I want to play, how I want to play it… — Chico Hamilton Copy Share Image
Big band music, to me, it really has three key elements. First is the lyrics are really sweet, and they're just really… — John Tesh Copy Share Image
I took some lessons as a kid but trained myself by ear. I did it the way jazz musicians used to learn… — Donald Fagen Copy Share Image
If you listen to nature, all the sounds are done in a confident way. I'm trying to do that. — Roscoe Mitchell Copy Share Image
Flexibility is an essential part of Jazz. It's what gives Jazz music the ability to combine with all other types of music… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
I'm trying to make music a sensual expression, not an academic experiment. — Andrew Hill Copy Share Image
It’s like a language. You learn the alphabet, which are the scales. You learn sentences, which are the chords. And then you… — Stan Getz Copy Share Image
When I was studying at Berklee, I got the feeling I couldn't play the [guitar] at all, because I could not use… — Gabor Szabo Copy Share Image
In Europe, they like everything you do. The mistakes and everything. That's a little bit too much. — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
The only art form that Americans have created that's recognized around the world is jazz music born in a community that had… — Ken Burns Copy Share Image
Some people are born with a brain that has this weird, magical mathematical thing that makes them an amazing jazz musician. — Andy Richter Copy Share Image
I read an interview with a Japanese freestyle jazz musician once, and he said something like, "Everything I'm going to tell you… — Paul Beatty Copy Share Image
Many jazz musicians affect a misunderstood-genius air when they play, which alienates the audience and breaks down the communications of the music.… — Gabor Szabo Copy Share Image
When I came to New York, to Brooklyn, I met Alvin Ailey and Stanley Crouch and August Wilson. They were always putting… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
People behind the Iron curtain have such an incredible image of America and jazz. I expected to find a Gerry Mulligan or… — Gabor Szabo Copy Share Image
I have seen great jazz musicians die obscure and drinking themselves to death and not really being able to get any work… — Sonny Rollins Copy Share Image
I was raised on piano and saxophone and jazz music for ten or twelve years. Before I even picked up a bass.… — Matt Snell Copy Share Image
Jazz music is the power of now. There is no script. It's conversation. The emotion is given to you by musicians as… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
Scott Feiner is a soulful magnet for the fusion of Brazilian and jazz music... — Kurt Rosenwinkel Copy Share Image
