Astronomers, like burglars and jazz musicians, operate best at night. — Miles Kington Copy Share Image
Jazz musicians are the coolest people on the planet. Can I have some cool? — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
Comedians talk to other comedians the way jazz musicians can talk to each other. — David Steinberg 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
Jazz scares me. I've witnessed so many incredible singers and jazz musicians. Pop and soul music have always been the things that… — Sam Smith Copy Share Image
I loved Art Tatum! And, through him, and other different jazz musicians, I actually found my technique. — Tony Bennett Copy Share Image
Jazz is the last refuge of the untalented. Jazz musicians enjoy themselves more than anyone listening to them does. — Tony Wilson Copy Share Image
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
The people in Japan know more about the history of jazz and the musicians than the people in the United States do. — Billy Higgins Copy Share Image
I found that jazz musicians, possibly more than their classical counterparts, wear long-standing friendships easily and gracefully. — Andre Previn 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 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
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
People like to compartmentalise music, especially African-American music, but it's really one thing. One very wide thing. I mean, it's like all… — Kamasi Washington 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
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
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
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
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 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
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
Jazz is the music of the body. The breath comes through brass. It is the body's breath, and the strings' wails and… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
Jazz musicians like John Coltrane needed these very clear titles for their abstract music, and your decision to bring voices into your… — Glenn Ligon Copy Share Image
I was deeply influenced by the sartorial practices of both preachers and jazz musicians and actually Masha in Act One of Anton… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
“CIA Interrogator: Have you ever met any jazz musicians you would describe, or who would describe themselves, as anarchists? Bartholomew 'Barley' Scott… — John le Carré Copy Share Image
“There is something more to be said about our freedom to improvise inside of the composer’s form. The jazz lifestyle of the… — Paul David Tripp 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
“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
Iceland is so small; classical musicians play on pop projects and pop musicians play with jazz musicians. — Laufey 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