I wish you wouldn't make the strings such an important part of your arrangements because frankly they're only a tax dodge! — Tommy Dorsey Copy Share Image
There is a modern take on certain things you can do that, to me, is still jazz. — Robert Glasper Copy Share Image
Technically, I'm not a guitar player, all I play is truth and emotion. — Jimi Hendrix Copy Share Image
Say That! is an iron fist upside the mushy head of smooth jazz, and Grant Geissman's defiant declaration of independence. — Bill Milkowski Copy Share Image
Miles Davis was doing something inherently African, something that has to do with all forms of American music, not just jazz. — Cassandra Wilson Copy Share Image
You need better technique than I have to play jazz, but what you have to do is the same thing, isn't it? — Charlie Watts Copy Share Image
My sister loved country music. My mother loved Spanish music. And my dad was into big band music and jazz. — Hope Sandoval Copy Share Image
“I don't get jazz. It always sounds like a bunch of toddlers let loose in a music room.” — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
I don't separate one era of jazz from another, because I listen to everybody... Everybody takes from everybody else and adds their… — Sonny Criss Copy Share Image
If you're a young artist, wondering what to call yourself, consider 'multimedia artist.' It's so vague. Then, no one can say, 'Hey,… — Laurie Anderson Copy Share Image
Bebop didn't have the humanity of Duke Ellington. It didn't have that recognizable thing. Bird and Diz were great, fantastic, challenging --… — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
My roots and Victor's are jazz, basically, but these two young fellows that we have with us come out of rock bands.… — Chico Hamilton Copy Share Image
The whole idea of jazz came about was the interpretation of the human dialogue, trading fours. When someone's soloing and someone picks… — Wendell Pierce Copy Share Image
He took comfort in the neon signs, the wild strands of jazz creeping out of clubs whenever happy swells of people pushed… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
In times of change and uncertainty, we need the spirit of jazz more than ever before, to bring people - especially young… — Irina Bokova Copy Share Image
Many of the jazz musicians whom are no longer here. You don't realize that it's history when it is happening and then… — Carol Friedman Copy Share Image
I sometimes tell students the only guarantee you've got is the music and no-one can take that away from you. Only you… — Mike Stern Copy Share Image
Avant-garde, jazz, pop, classical, country and western, rock, free, straight-ahead, etc. are ultimately meaningless terms in the face of the music being… — Pat Metheny Copy Share Image
You learn from music, from watching great athletes at work - how disciplined they are, how they move. You learn these things… — Ernest Gaines Copy Share Image
“ORIGIN OF JAZZ It was 1906. People were coming and going as usual along Perdido Street in a poor neighborhood of New… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
But black folks have never really been optimists. We've been prisoners of hope, and hope is qualitatively different from optimism in the… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
“And the thing about jazz, through all the business involved in practicing and improvement, it's always sweet: the improvement that you notice… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
I don't know how much more what I've done is any more important than what Ella Fitzgerald did. Ella crossed those lines,… — Al Jarreau Copy Share Image
I think that a rap aficionado, the hardcore rap fan, will always go away from pop, in the same way a hardcore… — Ice T Copy Share Image
Jazz is a racist musical form invented by whites to enslave blacks. — Lyndon LaRouche Copy Share Image
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