Nothin' he loved more than jazz music and womens titties. -Ethan Tremblay — Due Date Copy Share Image
If you find a note tonight that sounds good, play the same damn note every night! — Count Basie Copy Share Image
What I'm doing, I prefer to call that jazz, because it is a beautiful word - I love it. — Dexter Gordon Copy Share Image
Jazz is the type of music that can absorb so many things and still be jazz. — Sonny Rollins Copy Share Image
Jazz is music made by and for people who have chosen to feel good in spite of conditions. — Johnny Griffin Copy Share Image
We always feel pretty creative as far as writing songs. We write them together; we just get in a room, or on… — Chad Smith Copy Share Image
If income was directly proportional to technical proficiency and education, classical and jazz musicians would be some of the most affluent people… — Robert Emerson Coleman Copy Share Image
A jazz musician can improvise based on his knowledge of music. He understands how things go together. For a chef, once you… — Charlie Trotter Copy Share Image
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
As Eric Dolphy said 'Once you play the music, it's in the air. It's gone'. And that's true. But when you record… — John Abercrombie Copy Share Image
Some people think I'm a rock 'n' roll musician and some think I'm a jazz musician but, for me, there is no… — Georgie Fame Copy Share Image
I don't like heroin, unless you're a jazz musician and then you have to be on it because jazz is the sound… — John Waters Copy Share Image
Music had been going on a long time before that. You have to remember that before rock n' roll there were a… — Lemmy Kilmister Copy Share Image
Sometimes I wish I could walk up to my music as if for the first time, as if I had never heard… — John Coltrane Copy Share Image
The Beatles came and everybody forgot about everything else. That was a friendly, together, hip interpersonal music, introducing electric sustain, and it… — Paul Bley 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
Jazz musicians like John Coltrane needed these very clear titles for their abstract music, and your decision to bring voices into your… — Glenn Ligon Copy Share Image
Music needs the juxtaposition of opposites to achieve its drama, so harshness and dissonance are simply part of the material a musician… — Chuck Israels 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
[Lee Morgan] was the only young cat that scared me when he played. He had so much fire and natural feeling. I… — Freddie Hubbard 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
Jazz music is a style, not compositions; any kind of music may be played in Jazz if one has the knowledge. — Jelly Roll Morton Copy Share Image
I'm trying to make music a sensual expression, not an academic experiment. — Andrew Hill Copy Share Image
I am viewed as the Negro who has gone outside of the categories assigned to me. — Anthony Braxton 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
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