Kansas City Lightning succeeds as few biographies of jazz musicians have. . . This book is a magnificent achievement; I could hardly… — Henry Louis Gates 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
I took some lessons as a kid but trained myself by ear. I did it the way jazz musicians used to learn… — Donald Fagen 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
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
“Not to be confused with Der Flügel, which is an earlier form of the baby grand piano, the Flugelhorn is a wind… — Captain Hank Bracker, The Exciting Story of Cuba Copy Share Image
Comedians talk to other comedians the way jazz musicians can talk to each other. — David Steinberg 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
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
Even when I was studying musical theater in college, after I would have theory at 8 in the morning and be on… — Joshua Henry Copy Share Image
You know, as kids were weren't jazz musicians or anything. But, the circle of friends and the neighborhood I lived in, we… — John Petrucci 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
It is my belief that there is a tendency among the so-called 'modern' or 'hip' jazz musicians to consider styles other that… — Don Ellis Copy Share Image
We've now got a whole generation of jazz musicians who have been brought up with hip-hop. We've grown up alongside rappers and… — Kamasi Washington 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
The improvisational nature of jazz musicianship is such that a truly competent performer must be prepared to function as an on-the-spot composer… — Albert Murray Copy Share Image
I have always loved jazz music and as a teen growing up in New York City and then later on as an… — Tony Bennett 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
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
'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 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
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
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
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