Jazz is not the format where I want to stay, but it really is a starting point for me. — Justin Guarini Copy Share Image
Many jazz artists go to L.A. seeking a more comfortable life and then they really stop playing. — Sonny Rollins Copy Share Image
Joe Sample was one of my heroes. I met him at the Curacao Jazz festival, and I fanned out like he was… — India Arie Copy Share Image
Scott Feiner is a soulful magnet for the fusion of Brazilian and jazz music... — Kurt Rosenwinkel Copy Share Image
I love jazz and funk, because it's hard. If it's not hard, it's not worth doing. — Chris Carter Copy Share Image
Jazz is a very accurate, curiously accurate accompaniment to 20th century America. — Ken Burns Copy Share Image
The theory is that you don't play a song the same way twice because it's jazz. That's where I'm coming from. — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
I'm sure someone out there has a workable solution. But what do I know? I make comic books and write about jazz.… — Harvey Pekar Copy Share Image
Jazz has the power to make men forget their differences and come together... Jazz is the personification of transforming overwhelmingly negative circumstances… — Quincy Jones Copy Share Image
If I have to be considered any type of jazz artist, it would be New Orleans jazz because New Orleans jazz never… — Trombone Shorty Copy Share Image
When I'm in the classical world, I really treat it as exactly classical and I don't try and spruce it up or… — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
I regard singing pretty much like acting. Each song is like playing a different role. I get very involved with my material.… — Peggy Lee Copy Share Image
Is punk rock really music, or is it really just an attitude? I get into that discussion with people all of the… — Tim Commerford Copy Share Image
“The static’s nice. I could do without the screeching.” “Are you kidding? That’s the music of the spheres, commissar. It’s beautiful .… — Peter Watts Copy Share Image
Cannonball Adderley said, 'First 20 minutes we'll jazz out, then the last hour it's gonna be songs that people paid to see.'… — Robert Glasper Copy Share Image
Most of the music I've become interested in is hybrid in its originsClassical music, of course, is unbelievably hybrid. Jazz is an… — Edgar Meyer Copy Share Image
If your parents only listen to jazz or folk, you're like one of those trees you see in botanic gardens that have… — KT Tunstall Copy Share Image
The music I like to play is Rock 'N Roll. I like to rock like a wild animal. I like to rock… — Wesley Willis Copy Share Image
I owe Marilyn Monroe a real debt … she personally called the owner of the Mocambo, and told him she wanted me… — Ella Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Negro music has touched America because it is the melody of the soul joined with the rhythm of the machine. It is… — Le Corbusier Copy Share Image
Cultures have long heard wisdom in non-human voices: Apollo, god of music, medicine and knowledge, came to Delphi in the form of… — Jay Griffiths Copy Share Image
I was 16 when I came to New York. I had graduated to a tenor banjo in the school jazz band, and… — Pete Seeger 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
