Regardless of what you play, the biggest thing is keeping the feel going. — Wes Montgomery Copy Share Image
What I wanted to do was music, until I was about 16. But it was jazz and rock, never classical music. — Simon Helberg Copy Share Image
What makes bebop legitimate is the fact that when it was done, it was illegitimate. — Matthew Shipp Copy Share Image
I am not a jazz singer. I wouldn't place myself on that footing. I wouldn't even enter that arena. — Boz Scaggs Copy Share Image
I became a jazz fan quite early and never went off the path thereafter. — Ahmet Ertegun Copy Share Image
“Jazz is the only lever used by all the riffraff of Tram 83 to switch social class as one would subway cars.” — Fiston Mwanza Mujila Copy Share Image
jazz is the expression of America's romantic self, its sensual potency, its lyrical force. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
I'm a rapper and, obviously, hip hop rap is my main thing. But I also like to dive into different genres and… — Little Simz Copy Share Image
Regarding jam sessions: Jazz musicians are the only workers I can think of who are willing to put in a full shift… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
If you take 'Nothin' But a G Thang' by Dr Dre, that could also be an R&B record. 'Bonita Applebum' by A… — Rza Copy Share Image
If I knew what it was going to look like, I wouldnt be so excited to be a part of it. Jazz… — Joshua Redman Copy Share Image
America, the Idea of: We yearned for its beer and jazz, its smoke-filled nightclubs, its Edward Hopper bars, the melancholy of rainy… — Michael Bywater Copy Share Image
I love music, I love all kinds of music, particularly jazz. Jazz is an extension of America. There's no other country in… — Jon Huntsman, Jr Copy Share Image
Words are the children of reason and, therefore, can't explain it. They really can't translate feeling because they're not part of it.… — Bill Evans Copy Share Image
I love pop music. It's not easy to write a good pop song. It may be easier to put out a fake… — John Lydon Copy Share Image
For the moment, the jazz is playing; there is no melody, just notes, a myriad tiny tremors. The notes know no rest,… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
His musical inspiration operates in a world uncluttered by conventional bar lines, conventional chord changes, and conventional ways of blowing or fingering… — Gunther Schuller Copy Share Image
What I love about Sonny's playing is that he is so inventive within the mainstream Jazz vernacular. Because he knows so many… — Pete La Roca Copy Share Image
[Charlie Parker] was kind of a sponge and intrigued by it all.That's similar to what Phil [Woods] told me about Bird, too.… — Jon Gordon Copy Share Image
A lot of people in the jazz community are looking at how much notoriety we're getting. And we're an inspiration to a… — Robert Glasper Copy Share Image
In my neighborhood - West 121st Street in New York, "white Harlem" - there were only two drugs: smack and marijuana. By… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
I was being ridiculed for going to school... But, you see, I had looked hard at the other musicians and the whole… — Donald Byrd Copy Share Image
Put it this way: Jazz is a good barometer of freedom... In its beginnings, the United States of America spawned certain ideals… — Duke Ellington Copy Share Image
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