I used to sing in jazz clubs with a friend until she went another way. — Ophelia Lovibond Copy Share Image
When I was 12, I began listening to John Coltrane and I developed a love for jazz, which I still have more… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
I never liked jazz or anything else. Early rock n' roll - that was music to me. Everything else was boring. — Lemmy Copy Share Image
Learn to play the piano, man, and then you can figure out crazy solos of your own. — Dizzy Gillespie Copy Share Image
It's something that jazz has gotten away from, and it's unfortunate. Players aren't physical anymore. — Branford Marsalis Copy Share Image
The strange thing about Africa is how past, present and future come together in a kind of rough jazz, if you like. — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
An artist should write for himself & not for an audience. If the audience likes it, great. If not, they can keep away. — Artie Shaw Copy Share Image
I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract Expressionism. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
In any event, I'm proud to wear the badge of jazz vocalist if that's what people want to call me; but at… — Dianne Reeves Copy Share Image
That's the beautiful thing about the saxophone. It can peacefully coexist with just about anything - whether it's hip-hop, rap, rock music,… — Dave Koz Copy Share Image
I was three or four, and my mother would have a Bing Crosby record playing through the house. It was my introduction… — Michael Buble Copy Share Image
I've been informed by both sides, jazz, western music, Asian music, African music, all sides, because I've been interested in the sound… — Joseph Jarman Copy Share Image
Jazz is known all over the world as an American musical art form and that's it. No America, no jazz. I've seen… — Art Blakey Copy Share Image
I think Theodore Adorno was profoundly ignorant. I think even Adorno's fans think he was bad at understanding popular music. He thought… — Robert Christgau Copy Share Image
People recommended that I didn't sing at the school as a jazz major. So I sang and produced on my own time,… — Dennis Lloyd Copy Share Image
Duke Ellington, Art Tatum, and many other great jazz musicians objected to their music being called jazz. While the outside world may… — Dave Brubeck Copy Share Image
A respectable-sized audience hasn't really been able to follow developments in jazz since the free jazz movement in the '60s. Some of… — Harvey Pekar Copy Share Image
'Jazz Artist of the Century' would have to be a distinctive soloist and ensemble player, a composer, an arranger, a bandleader, and… — Dave Douglas Copy Share Image
“Welcome to Book-a-holic Anonymous. Hi, I'm Jazz and I am addicted to the written word. I love the smell of the blackest… — Jazz Feylynn Copy Share Image
I kept on buying records and listening to them. Finally, I was able to hear the relationship between the jazz improvisers' solos… — Harvey Pekar Copy Share Image
But you listen to Coltrane and that's something human, something that's about elevation. It's like making love to a woman. It's about… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
I never really sounded like Bird, but that was my mission. I didn't care if people said that I copied him; I… — Jackie McLean Copy Share Image
There are so many parts of music that it's actually a pleasure for me to work with an orchestra, or a jazz… — Alexandre Desplat Copy Share Image
“Those who have not lived in New Orleans have missed an incredible, glorious, vital city--a place with an energy unlike anywhere else… — Jordan Flaherty Copy Share Image
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