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
I would say I take a lot of inspiration from jazz and I borrow a lot of principles from it and classical… — Laufey Copy Share Image
Lars Ulrich is not a jazz drummer, but he grew up listening to jazz. Why? Because his father, Torben - an incredible… — Robert Trujillo 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
Music had been going on a long time before that. You have to remember that before rock n' roll there were a… — Lemmy Kilmister 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
We're [with Robbie Robertson ] jazz musicians. The context may be rock 'n' roll but it's still jazz. It's jazz and that… — Van Morrison 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
When I did the Abyssinian mass, I went through the whole history of the church music and the gospel music, even with… — Wynton Marsalis 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
Regarding jam sessions: jazz musicians are the only workers I can think of who are willing to put in a full shift… — Nikhil Saluja Copy Share Image
In some ways, jazz is the most precise of art forms and the loosest in the sense that it's all about improvisation,… — Damien Chazelle Copy Share Image
Hamp would ask me about tempos in the band: 'Jacquet,' he'd say, 'knock off that tempo.' A lot of jazz musicians didn't… — Illinois Jacquet Copy Share Image
The Ertegun Jazz Hall of Fame will provide a center where the lives and the artistry of the greatest jazz musicians will… — Ahmet Ertegun Copy Share Image
I never gave up on that idea, you know, that jazz musicians have the same opportunity as everybody else and that it's… — George Benson Copy Share Image
What separates great jazz musicians from average ones is Taste. Those who have taste consistently choose notes, tempos, timbres and voicings that… — Marc Myers 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'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
I always tell people that, just to be a bad jazz musician, you have to be better than most musicians. The worst… — Robert Glasper 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
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
I really love Dinah Washington and anything live from her - she had some of the greatest jazz musicians in the whole… — Beth Hart 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
Comedians talk to other comedians the way jazz musicians can talk to each other. — David Steinberg Copy Share Image
Now as jazz musicians we're saying for this society, you can free up your imagination. You can proceed in an area without… — Paul Bley Copy Share Image
Jazz musicians are so comfortable. The reason they can't do what we do is because they're so comfortable doin' what they do. — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
Musicians like to converse. There's always interesting conversation with musicians - with classical musicians, with jazz musicians, musicians in general. — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
One of the things that's clear to me from interviews that I've read is that the more popular successful jazz musicians had… — Branford Marsalis Copy Share Image
'Swing' is an adjective or a verb, not a noun. All jazz musicians should swing. There is no such thing as a… — Artie Shaw Copy Share Image
Jazz was the beginning of rhythm music, which developed into rock and roll. But what the jazz musicians lost because they were… — Fela Kuti Copy Share Image
My novels and poems are meant to be read aloud. That's why jazz musicians have been able to adapt my stuff. — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
I have seen great jazz musicians die obscure and drinking themselves to death and not really being able to get any work… — Sonny Rollins Copy Share Image
I really thought I was gonna have a straight gig. But these jazz musicians put their arms around me time and again… — Kurt Elling 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
What I can say is that for may years jazz musicians had to go to Europe, for instance, to be respected and… — Sonny Rollins Copy Share Image
People need to realize that even the greatest jazz musicians, when they listen to jazz, they're not like, analyzing it and deconstructing… — Kamasi Washington Copy Share Image
Comedians and jazz musicians have been more comforting and enlightening to me than preachers or politicians or philosophers or poets or painters… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Duke Ellington, Art Tatum, and many other great jazz musicians objected to their music being called jazz. While the outside world may… — Dave Brubeck Copy Share Image
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