New York seems conducted by jazz, animated by it. It is essentially a city of rhythm. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
If you mess around with jazz, you better have a good drummer and a good bass player. — Gunther Schuller Copy Share Image
I was really falling in love with jazz and dedicating myself in that direction. — Jon Gordon Copy Share Image
[Jazz musicians] couldn't cut rock. I had to be more limited and specific about what I was doing. — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
“I’m always thinking about creating. My future starts when I wake up in the morning and see the light.” — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
My vocal influences are a lot of jazz singers: Billie Holiday, Julie London, they had this tenderness to their voice. — Borns Copy Share Image
Souljazz doesn't reinvent soul, jazz or the fusion thereof, but it plays all of the above with the passion that drove its… — Anthony Fantano Copy Share Image
the French write plays and paint as naturally as we play jazz - it's just a national gift. — Alice B. Toklas Copy Share Image
This is jazz, this is funk, this is soul, this is gospel This is sanctified sick, this is player Pentecostal. This is… — Killer Mike Copy Share Image
In jazz, you listen to what the bass player is doing and what the drummer is doing, what the pianist and the… — David Amram Copy Share Image
I, of course, wanted to play real jazz. When we played pop tunes, and naturally we had to, I wanted those pops… — Count Basie Copy Share Image
I think my intention was there, and my love for the music was apparent. And there are very few singers who get… — Kurt Elling Copy Share Image
Comedy is the ultimate truth. Jazz is hitting the notes that that no one else would hit, and comedy is saying words… — Tommy Chong Copy Share Image
So our ears got used to listening to jazz in the place that it was that the bass player could not play.… — Miroslav Vitous Copy Share Image
Grover Washington was my main influence, and when I went to college, I started listening to more of the jazz masters like… — Kenny G Copy Share Image
From early on there were two things that filled my life - music and storytelling, both of them provoked by my father.… — Athol Fugard Copy Share Image
There are great jazz educators that I meet all the time. I met a guy named Paul Luchessi who has a high… — Jon Gordon Copy Share Image
When I and the other young artists were working in comics, our work carried with it a particularly American slant. After all,… — Joe Simon Copy Share Image
I've always felt that most jazz artists don't need producers .. most jazz artists know what kind of sound they want. They… — Christian McBride Copy Share Image
Yes, I started piano and classical singing, I wanted to study jazz, but I tried to go to the Polish University of… — Joanna Kulig Copy Share Image
Because the blues is the basis of most American music in the 20th century. It's a 12-bar form that's played by jazz,… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
I definitely get my artistry and my vocal talent from my mother and mother's side. She sang in a jazz trio band… — Zella Day Copy Share Image
My favorite band of all time is The Clash. The thing I love about The Clash is they started out as guys… — Michael Franti Copy Share Image
I don't like it when a player says, 'I like freedom; I want to play for myself.' Because the player has to… — Pep Guardiola Copy Share Image
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