I anticipated all the changes in jazz because they were all problematical things, that I was dealing with myself. In New York… — Paul Bley Copy Share Image
Jazz music is America's past and its potential, summed up and sanctified and accessible to anybody who learns to listen to, feel,… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
People have taken time out of their day and spent their money to come sit down at a concert. And it's jazz… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
Charlie Parker lifted jazz music off the dance floor and into the stratosphere! — Joe Lovano Copy Share Image
Business today is all about improvisation, which is the essence of jazz. Perhaps in the past we could just follow the operating… — Josh Linkner Copy Share Image
Ornette Coleman is doing the only really new thing in jazz since the innovations in the mid-forties of Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker,… — John Lewis Copy Share Image
Today Jazz music is performed & listened to by people of all ethnicity, backgrounds, ages & creeds. — Michelle Obama 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
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
“The sound of the wind stretches its limbs. The jazz music witholds some of its ruckus. Hands move something in the dark.… — Ashur Etwebi Copy Share Image
It is jazz music that called me to be a musician and I have always sang the songs that moved me the… — Harry Connick, Jr Copy Share Image
If you truly have expertise - and expertise can be say a chess master who has really mastered something or an artist… — Sheena Iyengar Copy Share Image
People who love jazz musicians love us when we play what we want to play and we're starving. But as soon as… — George Benson Copy Share Image
When you are busy with all the live shows and bands, world music and jazz music, it takes time to come back… — Shankar Mahadevan Copy Share Image
I like to say, jazz music is kind of like my musical equivalent of comfort food. You know, it's always where I… — Molly Ringwald Copy Share Image
One thing I like about jazz, kid, is that I don't know what's going to happen next. Do you? — Bix Beiderbecke Copy Share Image
You had many jazz musicians who lived in the United States, who had a hard time being accepted over here and had… — Sonny Rollins 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
Louis Armstrong was the primary contributor to jazz music in the 20th century. His improvisational skills served as the principal model for… — Ellis Marsalis, Jr Copy Share Image
Jazz to me is a living music. It's a music that since its beginning has expressed the feelings, the dreams, hopes, of… — Dexter Gordon Copy Share Image
But no one, when you stop to think, has ever equated abstract expressionism as a movement with jazz music. It's based on… — Romare Bearden Copy Share Image
I say, play your own way. Don't play what the public want - you play what you want and let the public… — Thelonious Monk Copy Share Image
