Once the jazz musician learns all the fundamentals they can keep track of a lot of choices in an instant. — Sheena Iyengar Copy Share Image
I no longer wanted to satisfy myself. I really want to connect with the world and make my music mean something to… — Chick Corea Copy Share Image
I'm all into Jazz; I'm into New Orleans type music. There is country, there is southern gospel. I'm a huge southern gospel… — Bart Millard Copy Share Image
Herb Wong was an incredible man. We met when I was performing with Clark Terry at the Wichita Jazz Festival around 1974. — Dianne Reeves Copy Share Image
When we were at the Apollo, Holiday was a block away. I asked her for her autograph. — Ella Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Today Jazz music is performed & listened to by people of all ethnicity, backgrounds, ages & creeds. — Michelle Obama Copy Share Image
To play piano is a significant part of my life, my existence. It fulfills a very physical & spiritual need for me. — Michel Legrand Copy Share Image
I always liked jazz. And my people liked the old blues, race records and the doo-wop and all that. — Amiri Baraka Copy Share Image
That's a skill that I'm proud of: to be able to be a jazz musician and go a bit crazy sometimes and… — Robert Glasper Copy Share Image
The stories from 1975 on are not finished and there is no resolve. I could spend 50 hours on the last 25… — Ken Burns Copy Share Image
Sometimes when I do a joke and it doesn't get a lot of laughs, it kind of feels like I'm doing jazz.… — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
I don't really listen to a lot of stuff that sounds real similar to me because I work on that kind of… — Samuel Ervin Beam Copy Share Image
But no one, when you stop to think, has ever equated abstract expressionism as a movement with jazz music. It's based on… — Romare Bearden Copy Share Image
I'm asked so many times why I think there aren't more female instrumentalists in jazz. But I never think about it. And… — Hiromi Uehara Copy Share Image
Shared leadership... is less like a an orchestra, where the conductor is always in charge, and more like a jazz band, where… — Phillip C. Schlechty Copy Share Image
I really didn't know a lot of rock 'n' roll until I moved to L.A. Before that, when I was in New… — Lenny Kravitz Copy Share Image
I've always explored things that people find a bit more freakish, like free jazz, and I'd gotten to a point where the… — Kieran Hebden Copy Share Image
One ironic thing is that although (the Soviet Union) was one of the most oppressive systems, with no respect for the individual,… — Gabe Polsky Copy Share Image
Jazz is not background music. You must concentrate upon it in order to get the most of it. You must absorb most… — Horace Silver Copy Share Image
Do not enjoy yourself. Enjoy dances and theaters and joy-rides and champagne and oysters; enjoy jazz and cocktails and night-clubs if you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I was raised on piano and saxophone and jazz music for ten or twelve years. Before I even picked up a bass.… — Matt Snell Copy Share Image
If they think they are doing something new, they ought to do what I do every day - spend at least two… — Coleman Hawkins Copy Share Image
I grew up in a home filled with music and had an early appreciation of jazz since my dad was a jazz… — Molly Ringwald Copy Share Image
I have a theory that musicians recognize each other and if they are destined to collaborate together they will. Mainly, they recognize… — Vlatko Stefanovski Copy Share Image
