When we were at the Apollo, Holiday was a block away. I asked her for her autograph. — Ella Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Today Jazz music is performed & listened to by people of all ethnicity, backgrounds, ages & creeds. — Michelle Obama Copy Share Image
To play piano is a significant part of my life, my existence. It fulfills a very physical & spiritual need for me. — Michel Legrand Copy Share Image
I always liked jazz. And my people liked the old blues, race records and the doo-wop and all that. — Amiri Baraka Copy Share Image
My dad listened to a load of jazz - Mahavishnu, Weather Report, Herbie Hancock. — Julian Barratt Copy Share Image
I really like the complexity of jazz, the emotional depth; I feel like there's no other music that's really as satisfying as… — Jose James Copy Share Image
We were either listening to jazz or Robert Johnson, the old blues man, but not to our peers. — Butch Trucks Copy Share Image
My strength is to communicate with an audience and to know what jazz singing is capable of. — Kurt Elling Copy Share Image
I love music, I love all kinds of music, particularly jazz. Jazz is an extension of America. There's no other country in… — Jon Huntsman, Jr Copy Share Image
Words are the children of reason and, therefore, can't explain it. They really can't translate feeling because they're not part of it.… — Bill Evans Copy Share Image
I love pop music. It's not easy to write a good pop song. It may be easier to put out a fake… — John Lydon Copy Share Image
In the '60s, people were still very protective of each field that they belonged to. Avant-garde artists didn't know about rock or… — Yoko Ono Copy Share Image
I do not claim any of the creation of the blues, although I have written many of them even before Mr. Handy… — Jelly Roll Morton Copy Share Image
Edward Isaac Bickert in never one to blow his own horn - figuratively - he is one of the most modest and… — Frank Rutter Copy Share Image
Few rappers realize the genre sprang from West African griots through Delta slave songs to jazz poetry and the comedic trash talk… — Quincy Jones Copy Share Image
I didn't really think I liked jazz all that much until I was about 18. That's when the freedom and possibilities of… — Brian Stokes Mitchell Copy Share Image
So for all that we might speak words in each other's vicinity, this could never develop into anything that could be called… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
To my ears, jazz sounds better in warm weather and after the sun has gone down. While I will listen to some… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
At the end of the day, what are genres? I've spent my whole life trying to fit into some sort of box.… — Laufey 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
Bop began with Jazz but one afternoon somewhere on a sidewalk maybe 1939, 1940, Dizzy Gillespie or Charlie Parker or Thelonious Monk… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
...people will go for anything they don't understand if it's got enough hype. They want to be hip, want always to be… — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
If you want the film [La La Land ] to represent all things jazz, it does not. You'll be disappointed by that.… — John Legend Copy Share Image
“And I like Strauss and Mozart and all that, but the priceless gift that African Americans gave the world when they were… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
![“If you want the film [La La Land ] to represent all things jazz, it does not. You'll be disappointed by that. But, if you just see it as one guy's point of view, one filmmaker's point of view, and one story among many stories that can be told about jazz, then it's not as much of an issue.” quote by John Legend](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2d6/john-legend-1666_all-things_if-you-want-the-film-la-la-land-to-repre_703689.png)
