A lot of times, jazz musicians try to educate people. What other genre does that? — Robert Glasper Copy Share Image
Master your instrument. Master the music. And then forget all that bullshit and just play. — Charlie Parker Copy Share Image
Once the jazz musician learns all the fundamentals they can keep track of a lot of choices in an instant. — Sheena Iyengar Copy Share Image
Companies have to take risks to get new knowledge, in a manner similar to how jazz musicians take risks when they go… — John Kao 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
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 who are qualified are symphonic orchestra players and jazz musicians; they're qualified to do what they do. Rock stars are lucky.… — Gene Simmons Copy Share Image
I went to jazz school. Not to say I'm a great jazz musician, but I studied under some great teachers. It was… — Robert Trujillo Copy Share Image
I never practice my guitar. From time to time I just open the case & throw in a piece of raw meat. — Wes Montgomery Copy Share Image
That's a skill that I'm proud of: to be able to be a jazz musician and go a bit crazy sometimes and… — Robert Glasper Copy Share Image
Certain jazz musicians just copy what was done 100 years ago. The music won't grow if nobody takes a risk. — Trombone Shorty Copy Share Image
All music now, I think, is fair game for jazz musicians to interpret, and they have been. I would consider those songs… — Patricia Barber Copy Share Image
Jazz musicians have always tended to have cult followings, which is pretty wonderful. — Dianne Reeves Copy Share Image
There's a whole stereotype of the jazz musician that's into poetry and reading and metaphysics and all that stuff. Really, it's a… — Kamasi Washington Copy Share Image
That's what I tell my students at California Institute of the Arts where I taught for 27 years. I taught them if… — Charlie Haden 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
I always tell my students when you're going to be a jazz musician the first thing you've got to do is be… — Lester Bowie Copy Share Image
Mum left school at 15, and after a few years of modelling and dating jazz musicians, was married by 21 to my… — Natascha McElhone Copy Share Image
Astronomers, like burglars and jazz musicians, operate best at night. — Miles Kington Copy Share Image
You know, it's funny... when you're making money, people don't think you're playing jazz. Now when you're not making money, people think… — Pete Fountain Copy Share Image
I started as a jazz musician, not a singer, then I became a rock 'n' roll artist with Aphrodite's Child. — Demis Roussos Copy Share Image
I will never again play anything that does not have social significance. We American jazz musicians of African descent have proved beyond… — Max Roach 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
