One of the great moments of my life was when I could write musician on my passport. — Jon Anderson Copy Share Image
You don't know what you like, you like what you know. In order to know what you like, you have to know… — Branford Marsalis Copy Share Image
I think people never hear what they say, and speech is a mocking sound instead of a jazz concert. — Mike Bass Copy Share Image
I did get to sing at Carnegie Hall when they were made Landmarks! I sang ALL THAT JAZZ with the NY Pops… — Karen Mason Copy Share Image
For me, jazz is an understanding of music, rather than an end in itself. — Jacob Collier Copy Share Image
I use rock and jazz and blues rhythms because I love that music. I hope my poetry has a relationship with good-time… — Adrian Mitchell Copy Share Image
Well, I was in a band. I was the singer with a band called the Soul Satisfiers. I sang then quite a… — Gloria Gaynor Copy Share Image
Steve Marcus was one of the greatest saxophonists in all of music. He truly was able to unite jazz with the popular… — Larry Coryell Copy Share Image
I think that band [Glenn Miller] was the beginning of the end. It was a mechanized version of what they called jazz… — Artie Shaw Copy Share Image
The common root, of course, comes out of Africa. That's the pulse.The African pulse. It's all the way back from . .… — Duke Ellington Copy Share Image
All forms are complex once you get to a really high level, and jazz and hip-hop are so connected. In hip-hop, you… — Kamasi Washington Copy Share Image
I'm sure critics have their purpose, and they're supposed to do what they do, but sometimes they get a little carried away… — Duke Ellington Copy Share Image
I was in rehab for nine months, and I needed some solace and distraction. I was in town one day and I… — Gregory Porter Copy Share Image
I love music. My secret dream has always been to be a jazz musician. I tried the saxophone for a year or… — Gaspard Ulliel Copy Share Image
We created the spirituals. We created so much great music, jazz chief amongst our innovations, teaching us how to prize ourselves and… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
One thing about excellence, it&Mac226;s an exclusive club. And it&Mac226;s only for those who really want to pay dues to the s--.… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
Symmetria by the Uccello Project is a gorgeous, instrumental and largely unclassifiable record. Best thought of as 'cinematic', each of the tracks… — Steve Lawson Copy Share Image
I've been YouTube surfing a lot lately so I'll Shazam a song that I find or some s - - and type… — Earl Sweatshirt Copy Share Image
My thing was, I loved music. I played music: I played the saxophone. So the little bit of music knowhow I had,… — Rakim Copy Share Image
I love jazz. So to me, there are two main types of jazz. There's dancing jazz, and then there's listening jazz. Listening… — Lupe Fiasco Copy Share Image
I understand that there are forms of entertainment that can make people weep or jazz them up so they feel like they… — Parker J. Palmer 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
I had a checklist in my mind of the things that make a biography practical. Is the source material centralized? Is it… — Terry Teachout Copy Share Image
The Beatles came and everybody forgot about everything else. That was a friendly, together, hip interpersonal music, introducing electric sustain, and it… — Paul Bley Copy Share Image
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