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
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
Many of the jazz musicians whom are no longer here. You don't realize that it's history when it is happening and then… — Carol Friedman Copy Share Image
He didn't say nothing. He would just do things. He never said nothing or explained nothing. He just would do it and… — Pharoah Sanders Copy Share Image
I no longer wanted to satisfy myself. I really want to connect with the world and make my music mean something to… — Chick Corea Copy Share Image
Regarding jam sessions: Jazz musicians are the only workers I can think of who are willing to put in a full shift… — George Carlin 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
Kansas City, I would say, did more for jazz music, black music, than any other influence at all. Almost all their joints… — Jesse Stone 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
...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
Change is always happening. That's one of the wonderful things about Jazz music. — Maynard Ferguson Copy Share Image
The whole thing of being in music is not to control it but to be swept away by it. — Bobby Hutcherson 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
Jazz musicians are the coolest people on the planet. Can I have some cool? — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
I guess certain kinds of jazz music could be Crunk. But the average jazz song, no, it's not Crunk. — Lil Jon Copy Share Image
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