Just because I'm playing Jazz I don't forget about me. I play or write me the way I feel through Jazz. — Charles Mingus Copy Share Image
If you're making money people don't think you're playing Jazz. When you're not making money they think you're a great Jazz musician. — Pete Fountain Copy Share Image
Life is like a great jazz riff. You sense the end the very moment you were wanting it to go on forever. — Sheila Ballantyne Copy Share Image
For me writing is a question of finding a certain rhythm. I compare it to the rhythms of jazz. — Francoise Sagan Copy Share Image
The public, hearing pop music, is, without knowing it, also soaking up jazz. — Norman Granz Copy Share Image
Iceland is so small; classical musicians play on pop projects and pop musicians play with jazz musicians. — Laufey Copy Share Image
They say that Jazz is back, and I don't think it's gone anywhere. But they say it's back. — Art Blakey Copy Share Image
There's a certain phraseology involved in jazz, and I've moved away from that. — Jan Garbarek Copy Share Image
I think that's what really a substantial work is, it's forever. It's the truth now and it was the truth then, and… — Abbey Lincoln Copy Share Image
Nobody would know it to look at me, but the movies I liked as a kid were musicals - 'All That Jazz,'… — Juliette Lewis Copy Share Image
People sometimes forget that jazz was built not only in the minds of the great ones but on the backs of the… — Cab Calloway Copy Share Image
I went to school for engineering, I studied jazz. So I always had this kind of creative side and technical side, and… — Joseph Kosinski Copy Share Image
Jazz is not the popular culture. Jazz is in the same position in our culture as classical music. A very small minority… — John Corigliano Copy Share Image
Jazz is improvisation and syncopation, with resilience and flow, with earthy elegance, nuance and subtlety, with the integrity of individual expression within… — Greg Thomas Copy Share Image
My D'Angelico is a jazz archtop guitar. That guitar was made for Glenn Miller's guitar player in 1939. It's a '39 D'Angelico… — Brian Setzer Copy Share Image
When you are studying jazz, the best thing to do is listen to records or listen to live music. It isn't as… — Carla Bley Copy Share Image
It wasn't until I got older that when they started putting only one form of music on the stations where I grew… — Uncle Kracker Copy Share Image
I looked back on the roaring Twenties - with its jazz, 'Great Gatsby,' and the pre-Code films - as a party I… — Hugh Hefner Copy Share Image
“Jazz presumes that it would be nice if the four of us--simpatico dudes that we are--while playing this complicated song together, might… — Dave Hickey Copy Share Image
I had a checklist in my mind of the things that make a biography practical. Is the source material centralized? Is it… — Terry Teachout Copy Share Image
The Beatles came and everybody forgot about everything else. That was a friendly, together, hip interpersonal music, introducing electric sustain, and it… — Paul Bley Copy Share Image
I was used to dancing, but only when someone told you what to do. So in the nightclub I was all over… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
Well, Smoke n' Mirrors has very much a world music flavor and it doesn't park itself in one country. It borrows heavily… — Lee Ritenour Copy Share Image
Ornette Coleman wasn't sure whether he was going to continue with Charlie Haden-Charlie had some personal problems. I said "You've got to… — Paul Bley Copy Share Image
In my teenage years I was as addicted to great pop as I was to free jazz, electronic music, and hardcore blues. — Scott Walker Copy Share Image
I don't like freedom jazz - I think it's void of roots and void of foundation. — George Shearing Copy Share Image
We real cool. We Left school. We Lurk late. We Strike straight. We Sing sin. We Thin gin. We Jazz June. We… — Gwendolyn Brooks Copy Share Image
Brownstein's is a fresh and jaunty voice, with a jazz snap all his own. — Tama Janowitz Copy Share Image
Jazz is not just music, it's a way of life, it's a way of being, a way of thinking. — Nina Simone Copy Share Image
I think my knowledge of music theory is rooted in jazz theory, and a lot of the writers of standards - Rodgers… — Zooey Deschanel Copy Share Image
Jazz is an art form that depends on its antecedents, there must be respect for the people that have gone before. — Jon Hendricks Copy Share Image
“Where’s jazz going? I don’t know. Maybe it’s going to hell. You can’t make anything go anywhere. It just happens.” — Thelonious Monk Copy Share Image
Symphony musicians are not trained in improvising, certainly not in a jazz style. — Gunther Schuller Copy Share Image
I started to play Jazz music in my early teens. A boyfriend brought records over, so I listened to everything — Marian McPartland Copy Share Image
I found that jazz musicians, possibly more than their classical counterparts, wear long-standing friendships easily and gracefully. — Andre Previn Copy Share Image
Syncopations are no indication of light or trashy music, and to shy bricks at 'hateful ragtime' no longer passes for musical culture. — Scott Joplin Copy Share Image
In Sweden we have a jazz festival, and I would try to see all these people like Angie Stone there when I… — Snoh Aalegra Copy Share Image
I think I'll give them another chance. Americans deserve another chance with my music. — Albert Ayler Copy Share Image
Grab your pig's feet, bread, and gin, there's plenty in the kitchen. I wonder what the poor people are eating tonight? — Fats Waller Copy Share Image
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