Other than conversation, no other art form can give the satisfaction of spontaneous interaction like Jazz. — Stan Getz Copy Share Image
I wasn't so interested in being paid. I wanted to be heard. That's why I'm broke. — Ornette Coleman Copy Share Image
Bibidy, bom bi bom, mek, jazz go mad. Bibidy, bom bi bom, mek, house go mad. — Reel 2 Real Copy Share Image
On the radio I listen to the easy-listening stations, the jazz stations. — Patti Page Copy Share Image
I like mellow music. I like some jazz. But I'm not a big hard rock guy. — Gary Carter Copy Share Image
Hip-hop has a feeling element, it's not just about knowing music. It's not like classical music or jazz where you can go… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
I got more publicity for not doing a festival than for doing the festival. — George Wein Copy Share Image
I'm a jazz musician, and I really wanted to not miss an opportunity to have the full connection to jazz. — Kurt Elling Copy Share Image
I was in every band class I could get in, like after school jazz band and marching band, and that's where I… — Chad Smith Copy Share Image
I knew what real instruments I wanted and, in some cases, who I wanted to play them. I had started listening to… — Dan Bejar Copy Share Image
Robert Altman made that movie Kansas City about the jazz scene in the city, and we saw that band all together, and… — Nick Kroll Copy Share Image
I'll always remember when I first heard Lester [Young]. I'd never heard anyone like him before. He was a stylist with a… — Count Basie Copy Share Image
Seriously though, my father was the first African American to sign a contract with the Metropolitan Opera so I grew up with… — Bobby McFerrin Copy Share Image
Within the context of Western music, jazz has always contained certain radical or revolutionary aspects. These are: improvisation, collective composition and individuality… — Michael Snow Copy Share Image
I like to hear the brass vibrate in the sound, not the reed. I like a dark sound, which is contrary to… — Stan Getz Copy Share Image
Orchestras are not used to playing the kind of stuff jazz musicians like to play. It requires a lot of rehearsal and… — Eberhard Weber Copy Share Image
To me, all guitar players can play, because I know they're getting to where they're at. It's a very hard instrument to… — Wes Montgomery Copy Share Image
I don't think I'm modest so much as I'm realistic. I know what I can do and what I can't do. I… — David Sanborn Copy Share Image
Most of the musicians that I'm playing with now have jazz backgrounds, so they're comfortable with improvisation. And they all know to… — Larkin Grimm Copy Share Image
As I became an adult, I listened to a lot of jazz, to the ladies of jazz, Ella Fitzgerald and Carmen McRae… — Lindsay Mendez Copy Share Image
The guitar is such an incredible instrument; it plays classical, flamenco, jazz, country, bluegrass, rock, acid, blues. You'll never see a clarinet… — Randy Bachman Copy Share Image
John [Coltrane] was like a visitor to this planet. He came in peace and he left in peace; but during his time… — Albert Ayler Copy Share Image
Nobody knows where jazz is going, because nobody has ever known where jazz was going. I mean, you couldn't possibly predict the… — Gary Giddins Copy Share Image
I don't know why people call me a jazz singer, though I guess people associate me with jazz because I was raised… — Sarah Vaughan Copy Share Image
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