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
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
I have always been a person who is concerned with the dignity of jazz music and the way jazz musicians have been… — Sonny Rollins Copy Share Image
I never really sounded like Bird, but that was my mission. I didn't care if people said that I copied him; I… — Jackie McLean Copy Share Image
But you listen to Coltrane and that's something human, something that's about elevation. It's like making love to a woman. It's about… — Wynton Marsalis 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
There used to be a club in new york called Bradley's - I've never been there, it closed in the 80's -… — Jose James Copy Share Image
Like, I'm trying to make a statement that clean comedy is somehow better or loftier than dirty comedy, and I don't feel… — Brian Regan Copy Share Image
Jazz music, as is also the case with the old down-home spirituals, gospel and jubilee songs, jumps, shouts and moans, is essentially… — Albert Murray Copy Share Image
Comedy is the drug, when they laugh it's like I'm a jazz musician and they hear it, and they get it. It's… — Alonzo Bodden Copy Share Image
My short answer would be that there is no greatest jazz musician of the century. Jazz, like any valid art form, finds… — Bennie Wallace Copy Share Image
People with talent are not interested in showing off behind another person. They're more interested in the music. [Charlie Parker] was playing… — Helen Merrill Copy Share Image
The most important thing to do as an artist is to get out of your comfort zone and work with different people:… — Katie Noonan 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
I grew up in a home filled with music and had an early appreciation of jazz since my dad was a jazz… — Molly Ringwald Copy Share Image
New Orleans is a place where people are deliberately undereducated so that they can be a labour class - the economy there… — Christian Scott Copy Share Image
Jazz is a music that really allows a person to express his deepest self, his most personal self - Africa being the… — Harold Land Copy Share Image
What I love about Sonny's playing is that he is so inventive within the mainstream Jazz vernacular. Because he knows so many… — Pete La Roca Copy Share Image
I was being ridiculed for going to school... But, you see, I had looked hard at the other musicians and the whole… — Donald Byrd Copy Share Image
I knew I could never be accepted as a straight-ahead jazz musician, nor would Iaccept myself as that. I would never be… — Anthony Davis Copy Share Image
One of the most obvious aspects of the music to people who know jazz is: How does it feel in the swing?… — Chuck Israels Copy Share Image
I don't listen to a lot of music when I have my free time. But I'll go to a jazz club and… — Joshua Bell 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
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
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
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 with talent are not interested in showing off behind another person. They're more interested in the music. [Charlie Parker] was playing with me. That's the difference between the kind of musician I like to work with and singing with a musician who thinks he has to accompany me. That is so…” quote by Helen Merrill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/478/helen-merrill-83326_accompany_people-with-talent-are-not-interested-in_437342.jpg)
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