I wanted to make a jazz record. I didn't want it to be a standards record. — Rita Coolidge Copy Share Image
I go through phases where I'm not into jazz as much, and then I'll get heavy, heavy, heavy into it. — Flying Lotus Copy Share Image
Scott Feiner is a soulful magnet for the fusion of Brazilian and jazz music... — Kurt Rosenwinkel Copy Share Image
I love jazz and funk, because it's hard. If it's not hard, it's not worth doing. — Chris Carter Copy Share Image
Jazz is a very accurate, curiously accurate accompaniment to 20th century America. — Ken Burns Copy Share Image
So What or Kind of Blue were done in that era, the right hour, the right day. It's over; it's on the… — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
My novels and poems are meant to be read aloud. That's why jazz musicians have been able to adapt my stuff. — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
Yeah, it's more like playing what you think is appropriate for the moment, not forcing any particular style. — Charlie Hunter Copy Share Image
Everyone wants to put people on, I think. And get away with it! That's the thing: put people on and get away… — Dizzy Gillespie Copy Share Image
When I started recording, I thought I'd be able to do all kinds of records: jazz, country, dance - and I've always… — Tom Jones Copy Share Image
Edward Isaac Bickert in never one to blow his own horn - figuratively - he is one of the most modest and… — Frank Rutter Copy Share Image
Few rappers realize the genre sprang from West African griots through Delta slave songs to jazz poetry and the comedic trash talk… — Quincy Jones Copy Share Image
I'm sure someone out there has a workable solution. But what do I know? I make comic books and write about jazz.… — Harvey Pekar Copy Share Image
I didn't really think I liked jazz all that much until I was about 18. That's when the freedom and possibilities of… — Brian Stokes Mitchell Copy Share Image
Jazz has the power to make men forget their differences and come together... Jazz is the personification of transforming overwhelmingly negative circumstances… — Quincy Jones Copy Share Image
If I have to be considered any type of jazz artist, it would be New Orleans jazz because New Orleans jazz never… — Trombone Shorty Copy Share Image
Like, I'm trying to make a statement that clean comedy is somehow better or loftier than dirty comedy, and I don't feel… — Brian Regan Copy Share Image
There was a lot that was tricky about playing with [Thelonious Monk]. It's a musical language where there's really no lyrics. It's… — Roy Haynes Copy Share Image
There used to be a club in new york called Bradley's - I've never been there, it closed in the 80's -… — Jose James Copy Share Image
I think jazz was just seeking respect and validity because a lot of people didn't believe it was a viable art form,… — Andrew Bird Copy Share Image
There's something beautifully friendly and elevating about a bunch of guys playing music together. This wonderful little world that is unassailable. It's… — Keith Richards Copy Share Image
I've always loved black culture; I don't know any other way to put it. Since I was a kid I loved music… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
For me, let's keep jazz as folk music. Let's not make jazz classical music. Let's keep it as street music, as people's… — Pat Metheny Copy Share Image
Of course when you are a kid you listen to what your parents had around. A lot of gospel, jazz. Now when… — Jorma Kaukonen Copy Share Image
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