There's always this sound out there that's just a little beyond my reach & that just sort of keeps me going. — Bill Frisell Copy Share Image
Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music. — Nina Simone Copy Share Image
That's the thing about jazz: it's free flowing, it comes from your soul. — Billy Crystal Copy Share Image
The jazz records come out a lot. You find that with many musicians - we don't listen to our own music for… — Simon Rattle Copy Share Image
I like the idea of an eclectic approach, incorporating jazz with other forms and other genres of music. — Herbie Hancock Copy Share Image
As a kid, I used to go see all the jazz players, Oscar Peterson, Stan Kenton, Dave Brubeck, Dizzy Gillespe. — Jim Coleman Copy Share Image
“Butterfly upon my hand, A voice of wonder within my mind, not my own but the butterfly's.” — Jazz Feylynn Copy Share Image
The Zombies were really unique - they had elements of jazz and classical music in their songs and songwriting. They had a… — Paul Weller Copy Share Image
I am Charles Mingus, half black man, not even white enough to pass for nothing but black. I am Charles Mingus, a… — Charles Mingus Copy Share Image
I've mainly been sampling jazz because the tone of the chords are expressive in itself, so it's quite nice to write over.… — King Krule Copy Share Image
Do you think Duke Ellington didn't listen to Debussy? Louis Armstrong loved opera, did you know that? Name me a jazz pianist… — Dave Brubeck Copy Share Image
There is an awful lot of what I call recreational jazz going on, where people go out and learn a particular language… — Steve Lacy Copy Share Image
I'm comfortable singing jazz. The only thing I was concerned about is that everybody, even in jazz, has their own style. To… — Gladys Knight Copy Share Image
My mother was a jazz fanatic and she wanted me to play the piano so I could play jazz tunes. I wish… — Etta James Copy Share Image
Some people say there was no jazz tenor before me. All I know is I just had a way of playing and… — Coleman Hawkins Copy Share Image
The hardest thing about being a young musician on the jazz scene is that there are so many styles of music, jazz… — Dave Kikoski Copy Share Image
Jazz is really about the human experience. It’s about the ability of human beings to take the worst of circumstances and struggles… — Herbie Hancock Copy Share Image
Jazz is not a game of chance. Its sonorous disorder is only an appearance. It is an organized force obeying obscure laws,… — Wanda Landowska Copy Share Image
I lay in that tub on the seventeenth floor of this hotel for-women-only, high up over the jazz and push of New… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
But my dad was a jazz pianist and plays by ear, and all my family are musical. And that bizarrely, is quite… — Rhod Gilbert Copy Share Image
I was interested in the ways that artists responded to totalitarianism - the Czech Jazz Section, Romanian absurdist theatre, Brecht's alienation effect.… — Nicholas Royle 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
I admire mold-breakers. People that bust free from traditional thinking and change the game completely. Steve Jobs. Charlie Parker (jazz saxophonist). The… — Josh Linkner Copy Share Image
Sounds of daily life are musical. I try to absorb the intricacies of sounds as if I were listening to music. — Tom Harrell Copy Share Image
the grace is being able to like rock music, symphony music, jazz … anything that contains the original energy of joy. — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
In the sense that I also try to reflect the fullness of the black experience, I’m very much a jazz poet. — Jayne Cortez Copy Share Image
Well, I guess my unease with that is... I'm always a little uneasy with that phrase - smooth jazz, as opposed to… — David Sanborn Copy Share Image
To most white people, jazz means black and jazz means dirt, and that's not what I play. I play black classical music. — Nina Simone Copy Share Image
I really enjoy going out with my jazz group. That's something that I don't ever want to stop doing. — Dianne Reeves Copy Share Image
I don't think that jazz, as any kind of an art form, has any permanence attached to it, apart from the practitioners… — Norman Granz Copy Share Image
Jazz vision is a wordless conversation between musical notes and visual expressions. — Barbara Januszkiewicz Copy Share Image
Jazz music by its very nature is just a conglomerate of a lot of different kinds of music. — David Sanborn Copy Share Image
If he's a true symphony artist, he knows better than that because he knows that the only truly creative musician is the… — Buddy Rich Copy Share Image
Jazz has provided the framework for all the other stuff that I've done. — Lizz Wright Copy Share Image
A lot of times, jazz musicians try to educate people. What other genre does that? — Robert Glasper Copy Share Image
What I'm dealing with is so vast and great that it can't be called the truth. It's above the truth. — Sun Ra Copy Share Image
All art is communication of the artists' ideas, sounds, thoughts; without that no one will support the artist. — Lionel Hampton Copy Share Image
I am friends with the most amazing musicians that can do pop, rap, punk and jazz. — Kenny Beats Copy Share Image
I want to play music that draws a picture of the world and its space. — Jimi Hendrix Copy Share Image
