I never had much interest in the piano until I realized that every time I played, a girl would appear on the… — Duke Ellington Copy Share Image
The age of 18 seemed the right time to try something different in my life. Moving to the U.K. was a risk,… — Manfred Mann Copy Share Image
I started as a musician. I play the saxophone, but from the age of 17, I realised that it's very hard to… — John Polson Copy Share Image
Coltrane would do what you'd get a Roland Pro Tools module to do but with a group of jazz musicians. — Colin Greenwood Copy Share Image
I want them to come away with discovering the music inside them. And not thinking about themselves as jazz musicians, but thinking… — Charlie Haden Copy Share Image
There were two things I discovered when I toured with Snoop. One was that the band was all jazz musicians. The second… — Kamasi Washington Copy Share Image
If I don’t practice for a day, I know it. If I don’t practice for two days, the critics know it. And… — Louis Armstrong Copy Share Image
There's been this perception that Europeans still hold on to, that they discover the real talented ones in American culture and give… — Andrew Bird Copy Share Image
I'd been studying philosophy at the University of Chicago. I hadn't been doing well, because I was sitting in with jazz musicians… — Kurt Elling Copy Share Image
If income was directly proportional to technical proficiency and education, classical and jazz musicians would be some of the most affluent people… — Robert Emerson Coleman Copy Share Image
I'm a jazz musician, and I really wanted to not miss an opportunity to have the full connection to jazz. — Kurt Elling Copy Share Image
Jazz musicians have always taken the standards of their time and performed them with a jazz sensibility. — Dianne Reeves Copy Share Image
I don't like it when a player says, 'I like freedom; I want to play for myself.' Because the player has to… — Pep Guardiola Copy Share Image
This whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, “Is there a meaning to music?” My answer to that would be,… — Aaron Copland 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 really have a career as a jazz musician. I don't really have a career as a classical musician. I don't… — Paul Smoker Copy Share Image
Jazz musicians are the coolest people on the planet. Can I have some cool? — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
I started to listen to Japanese jazz musicians when I went to high school. Some people I listened to were Yosuke Yamashita,… — Hiromi Copy Share Image
“Almost immediately after jazz musicians arrived in Paris, they began to gather in two of the city’s most important creative neighborhoods: Montmartre… — Jeffrey H. Jackson 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
If you find a note tonight that sounds good, play the same damn note every night! — Count Basie 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
