“I'm eclectic,' she said to the HDs once and I could see them trying to work out where she plugged in.” — Cath Crowley 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
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
It's the group sound that's important, even when you're playing a solo. You not only have to know your own instrument, you… — Oscar Peterson Copy Share Image
It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
“Yet I’ve noticed the same thing when your band plays — the most amazing social coherence, as if you all shared the… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
We listen to a lot of classical and a lot of jazz, and so you get some funky notes here and there.… — Synyster Gates Copy Share Image
When I was 13, I used to go to a jazz club. The owner of the club became my first business manager.… — Johnny Mathis Copy Share Image
I do subscribe to the maxim that generally comedy is like jazz. Either you get it or you don't. You can't learn… — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
Dance music-as I keep saying, you can dance to a windshield wiper... a windshield wiper that's fairly steady gives you a beat… — Artie Shaw Copy Share Image
Up to the age of 14 I had not heard a note of anything before 1750, never heard a note of Bach,… — Steve Reich Copy Share Image
I love all types of music. Jazz, classical, blues, rock, hip-hop. I often write scripts to instrumentals like a hip-hop artist. Music… — Chadwick Boseman Copy Share Image
[On John Tunnard:] One day a marvelous man in a highly elaborate tweed coat walked into the gallery. He looked a little… — Peggy Guggenheim Copy Share Image
I read some older books when I worked at Barnes And Noble, like some of the American classics. I read a lot… — Bert Kreischer Copy Share Image
The most important thing to do as an artist is to get out of your comfort zone and work with different people:… — Katie Noonan Copy Share Image
People with talent are not interested in showing off behind another person. They're more interested in the music. [Charlie Parker] was playing… — Helen Merrill Copy Share Image
Why a musician loves playing jazz or classical music or what makes them happy, and why an artist likes to paint -… — Elisabeth Moss Copy Share Image
When I start to think about all the things, I'm doing sometimes I just have to thank the man upstairs. Because I'm… — Ramsey Lewis Copy Share Image
I just saw a recent television program about art, and it was saying how from the end of the Second World War,… — Robert Wyatt Copy Share Image
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