Jazz music is all about performance, right? At least, to me, it's about the freedom of performance, the different inflections you do… — Laufey Copy Share Image
...to me if it's anything, jazz is a verb-it's more like a process than it is a thing. — Pat Metheny Copy Share Image
You know the actor John Garfield? In one movie he walked up to this train station, the ticket booth, and the guy… — Wayne Shorter 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
Jazz is the greatest American art form and our greatest export. We don't pay attention to the youth of jazz, don't stoke… — Talib Kweli Copy Share Image
I love music. My secret dream has always been to be a jazz musician. I tried the saxophone for a year or… — Gaspard Ulliel Copy Share Image
The whole thing of being in music is not to control it but to be swept away by it. If you're swept… — Bobby Hutcherson Copy Share Image
I'm not a jazz musician, because, I mean, firstly, I can't play anything. I'm not bad on the tamborine. I have a… — Michael Buble Copy Share Image
I never even thought about whether or not they understand what I'm doing . . . the emotional reaction is all that… — John Coltrane 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
I love more percussions more than anything. I always wanted to be a drummer. — Pharoah Sanders 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
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
I never thought that the music called "jazz" was ever meant to reach just a small group of people, or become a… — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
I find Indian music very funky. I mean it's very soulful, with their own kind of blues. But it's the only other… — John McLaughlin Copy Share Image
“You’ll get through this. You fear you won’t. We all do. We fear that the depression will never lift, the yelling will… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
And if you look around, if you listen to some music nowdays, I'm not so optimistic...I have the feeling that some of… — Peter Brotzmann Copy Share Image
I think that band [Glenn Miller] was the beginning of the end. It was a mechanized version of what they called jazz… — Artie Shaw Copy Share Image
They didn't dictate to me as to what kind of music that they wanted me to play or what tunes, what musicians… — Horace Silver Copy Share Image
I believe in knowing all you can about the music and the people who made the music. I think it's much more… — Sonny Sharrock Copy Share Image
Sarah Vaughan was the Charlie Parker of the vocalists during the 1950s. — Roy Haynes Copy Share Image
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