I was exposed to jazz and blues and gospel and country music and rock, and I was the only kid I knew… — Steve Miller Copy Share Image
At a certain point, I became a kind of musician that has tunnel vision about jazz. I only listened to jazz and… — Herbie Hancock Copy Share Image
The jazz boom was goin' on then so there was a lot happenin' in New York at that time. — Mose Allison Copy Share Image
I worked in reggae, hip-hip, jazz, funk - all the music I used to relate to. — Mark Morrison Copy Share Image
This is our bandstand. If you don't want to play, get up off the instrument and leave. — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
I never really liked poetry readings; I liked to read poetry by myself, but I liked singing, chanting my lyrics to this… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
I wasn't very aware of pop music because I attended an arts school. For me, it was all about jazz. — Norah Jones Copy Share Image
“A spiritual journey is becoming what one has always meant to be-come and always was. One with God's Spirit.” — Jazz Feylynn Copy Share Image
A way to make new music is to imagine looking back at the past from a future and imagine music that could… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
My primary influences were the best jazz players from the 50's and 60's and later some of the pop people from the… — Walter Becker Copy Share Image
I think on my passport form I described myself as 'entertainer,' filling it in, in a Post Office or something. I felt… — Limmy Copy Share Image
I listen to so much, I listen to a lot of reggae. Obviously I listen to hip-hop, that's what I make. I… — DJ Khaled Copy Share Image
That was something we were trying to figure out: Are we allowed to do a jazz song? Are we allowed to do… — Ryan Ross Copy Share Image
What makes my approach special is that I do different things. I do jazz, blues, country music and so forth. I do… — Ray Charles Copy Share Image
In the year of 1902, when I was about seventeen years old, I happened to invade one of the sections [in New… — Jelly Roll Morton Copy Share Image
We do ballet dancing, Irish dancing, Scottish, jazz, tap - whatever country we're in or whatever culture that we'd like to present… — Emma Watkins Copy Share Image
You know somethin', man? Some day I'm gonna be walkin' up the street one way and you're gonna be comin' down the… — Chick Webb Copy Share Image
I don't really have a career as a jazz musician. I don't really have a career as a classical musician. I don't… — Paul Smoker 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
There are many influences in my music, not only blues. R&B, Motown, gospel, old timey, jazz, even classical are all part of… — Rory Block Copy Share Image
"The Hallmark Sessions" is an extraordinary release. Breau plays beautiful chords (sounding a little like Johnny Smith in spots) and inventive single-note… — Scott Yanow Copy Share Image
“Then it was horn time. Time for the big solo. Sonny lifted the trumpet - One! Two! - He got it into… — Charles Beaumont Copy Share Image
I think Berklee College of Music had the highest dropout rate of any college - or pretend college - in the United… — Brendon Small Copy Share Image
The artist is very lucky, because in an art form that's spontaneous like jazz, that's when you really see your true self.… — Charlie Haden Copy Share Image
I feel that I have an obligation to jazz and also to myself to play as good as I can play. — Sonny Rollins Copy Share Image
The people in Japan know more about the history of jazz and the musicians than the people in the United States do. — Billy Higgins Copy Share Image
I like to capture the spirit of what the writers intended but find my own nuances. That comes from jazz - the… — Brian Stokes Mitchell Copy Share Image
No matter how much people want to pretend that they're embarrassed by it, that they don't watch it, everybody knows about it.… — CM Punk Copy Share Image
I went to jazz college and didn't know diddly about jazz like Derek did. He knew more about jazz and the country-blues… — Susan Tedeschi Copy Share Image
I would love to do a biopic of a famous singer, like Diana Ross or Donna Summer, or an old jazz story… — Taraji P. Henson Copy Share Image
I was a Spanish dancer. I don't mean to put that down, because that was great, too, but nothing like the kind… — Rita Moreno Copy Share Image
“Twist a tongue, and tongue a twist how many twists can a tongue twister twist around their twisting tongue. If a tongue… — Jazz Feylynn Copy Share Image
One of the things I'm going to say out there is how grateful I am - and how grateful the world is… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
First of all, I swore it was two people playing. When I finally admitted to myself that was one man, I gave… — Oscar Peterson Copy Share Image
I came along in the '60s having absorbed as much as I could up until then and added my own tastes and… — Chick Corea Copy Share Image
I studied and sang lot of jazz when I was growing up. I think that plays a little bit into some of… — Chris Young Copy Share Image
They always ask me the same questions. Where was I born? When did I start singing? Who have I worked with? I… — Sarah Vaughan Copy Share Image
Keith Moon is not interested in Jazz and won't ever be a Jazz drummer because he's more interested in looking good and… — Pete Townshend Copy Share Image
By adding open strings to even the simplest chords, you can create voicings that sound sophisticated, but are really easy (and fun)… — John Petrucci Copy Share Image
What makes jazz different is that you can't predict it, it's all about freedom. Just when you think you know what you're… — Gregory Porter Copy Share Image
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