Improvising musicians are musical travelers, voyagers. There is a freedom to wander the musical landscape. — Gary Burton Copy Share Image
The whole basis of my singing is feeling. Unless I feel something, I can't sing. — Billie Holiday Copy Share Image
In a lot of ways, Metallica is like a fusion band. It's not necessarily jazz or any of that, but the music… — Robert Trujillo Copy Share Image
Jazz was born out of the whiskey bottle, was raised on marijiana, and will expire on cocaine. — Artie Shaw Copy Share Image
Jazz, like leadership, combines the unpredictability of the future with the gifts of individuals. — Max De Pree Copy Share Image
You can't teach it [jazz singing]. There's nobody who can teach you how to sing jazz. Either you know how to sing… — Tony Bennett Copy Share Image
In the '60s, people were still very protective of each field that they belonged to. Avant-garde artists didn't know about rock or… — Yoko Ono Copy Share Image
I do not claim any of the creation of the blues, although I have written many of them even before Mr. Handy… — Jelly Roll Morton Copy Share Image
We're [with Robbie Robertson ] jazz musicians. The context may be rock 'n' roll but it's still jazz. It's jazz and that… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
My band, Miles Long, is a jazz-funk spoken word band. There's jazz sensibilities, but I'm a bass player, so I'm very much… — Malcolm-Jamal Warner Copy Share Image
He didn't say nothing. He would just do things. He never said nothing or explained nothing. He just would do it and… — Pharoah Sanders Copy Share Image
I had to figure out how to survive in New York, and most of my time was occupied in getting an apartment… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
Jazz radio is not very friendly to pop singers who decide to make a jazz record. But a lot of people have… — Rita Coolidge Copy Share Image
I prefer music where melody, harmony and rhythm come together and no one element overshadows the other. Jazz at its best is… — Jimmy Heath Copy Share Image
I have to admit that more and more lately, the whole idea of jazz as an idiom is one that I've completely… — Pat Metheny Copy Share Image
“Billie Holiday Her imperfect life led to her becoming a legendary performer with a continuing influence on American music. Born Eleanora Fagan… — Captain Hank Bracker, "Seawater One Copy Share Image
The virtuoso element in jazz playing, all those very fast runs in the upper extremes, simply doesn't appeal to me. That's why… — Gavin Bryars Copy Share Image
What I really like about Cuba is that you can go into a local bar in a provincial town and you'll get… — John Gimlette Copy Share Image
We're not like a nostalgia act, or the normal classic rock act - we're a really good musical organization, ... You're going… — Steve Miller Copy Share Image
You know that this vignette and that vignette belong side by side, you know that a certain turn of phrase you've been… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
I did 'I'd Do Anything,' and then a play and then 'A Little Light Music.' I played jazz in a night club… — Jessie Buckley Copy Share Image
New Orleans had a great tradition of celebration. Opera, military marching bands, folk music, the blues, different types of church music, ragtime,… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
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