The Meters are, I think, the most influential group in our time to come out of New Orleans, to have changed and… — John Scofield Copy Share Image
Every good gospel singer you can hear is a scat singer; they're just using different syllables. There are a lot of jazz… — Al Jarreau Copy Share Image
Yes, there's a relaying of internal states that only a novel can achieve. In my view, the novel is one of Europe's… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
I've always had a love for music, and it developed as I learned jazz, blues, and gospel. And I performed with jazz… — Luke James Copy Share Image
I love swing, jazz, blues, standards. I love the American songbook, Gershwin, Berlin. It's all that. So I'm born in the wrong… — Sarah Lancashire Copy Share Image
Over the years, the critics have said, 'They never change.' Maybe the little guy's got a new color of school uniform. I… — Angus Young Copy Share Image
I'm a freak, everything has to be totally flat when I play. Ed Will, my jazz teacher, set up everything completely flat,… — Travis Barker Copy Share Image
I never thought that the music called "jazz" was ever meant to reach just a small group of people, or become a… — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
There is a view that jazz is 'evil' because it comes from evil people, but actually the greatest priests on 52nd Street… — Garth Hudson Copy Share Image
The job of the jazz people is to take it as far as it will go and that's what they're doing. But… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
If you want the film [La La Land ] to represent all things jazz, it does not. You'll be disappointed by that.… — John Legend Copy Share Image
“And I like Strauss and Mozart and all that, but the priceless gift that African Americans gave the world when they were… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Most of the music I've become interested in is hybrid in its originsClassical music, of course, is unbelievably hybrid. Jazz is an… — Edgar Meyer Copy Share Image
If your parents only listen to jazz or folk, you're like one of those trees you see in botanic gardens that have… — KT Tunstall Copy Share Image
The music I like to play is Rock 'N Roll. I like to rock like a wild animal. I like to rock… — Wesley Willis Copy Share Image
I owe Marilyn Monroe a real debt … she personally called the owner of the Mocambo, and told him she wanted me… — Ella Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Jazz is the greatest American art form and our greatest export. We don't pay attention to the youth of jazz, don't stoke… — Talib Kweli Copy Share Image
One of my songs was on a jazz station for awhile. It was a song that I wrote for a jazz sax… — Trevor Donovan Copy Share Image
What is jazz? It, It's almost like asking, What is French? Jazz is a musical language. It's a musical dialect that actually… — Branford Marsalis Copy Share Image
Around middle school I studied jazz guitar and ended up playing in a jazz band for a bit. But, after high school,… — Mike Tucker Copy Share Image
We didn't go for music that sounded like blues, or jazz, or rock, or Led Zeppelin, or Rolling Stones. We didn't want… — Michael Giles Copy Share Image
The history of jazz lets us know that this period in our history is not the only period we've come through together.… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
I would sit in at a jazz brunch [at sweet Basil] with Eddie Chamblee, who was a great tenor player. Really a… — Jon Gordon Copy Share Image
I listened to Billie Holiday a lot in order to learn to sing. She remains one of the extraordinary jazz singers. But… — Madeleine Peyroux Copy Share Image
“I don’t know a thing about jazz.” “That’s okay.” He pulled me toward the door and opened it. “You know music. Jazz… — Jessica Martinez Copy Share Image
I want a church service with New Orleans funeral jazz music. I'd like people to say a few words about me and… — Paul Young Copy Share Image
Jazz celebrates older generations and not just the youth movement. When you 'sell' only to people of a certain age, you get… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
What I believe to be jazz is constructed and improvised music which is in the air right now. But I don't think… — John Lurie Copy Share Image
In this country kings or dukes don't amount to nothing. The greatest man around then was Franklin D. Roosevelt, and he was… — Billie Holiday Copy Share Image
This all came of a conversation I had with [John] Steinbeck once when we were standing in a men's room somewhere. Steinbeck… — Eddie Condon Copy Share Image
The most important thing about Jazz at Lincoln Center is the fact that it's the first time that perhaps the most important… — Rafael Vinoly Copy Share Image
Sometimes I practice to Allan Holdsworth or John McLaughlin, but I don't just practice to jazz and jazz-fusion albums. I'll practice to… — Thundercat Copy Share Image
Jazz music is as American as it gets, and so is the U.S. Postal Service. A Miles Davis stamp is a perfect… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
As a jazz musician, you have individual power to create the sound. You also have a responsibility to function in the context… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
I play in a jazz sextet. So I don't have time to do a lot of conventions. The good thing is, when… — Peter Weller Copy Share Image
Rock and roll is not an instrument. Rock and roll isn't even a style of music. Rock and roll is a spirit… — MC Ren Copy Share Image
The problem we have is that, some people call it 'too rock' to play on a jazz station, and it's 'too jazz'… — Allan Holdsworth Copy Share Image
I suppose subconsciously I was thinking in terms of having the scale of it matching the scale of the images. Hence the… — Jonny Greenwood Copy Share Image
We've played so many places where, if you asked people, 'Do you like jazz?' they would be like, 'Not at all.' But… — Kamasi Washington Copy Share Image
It occurred to me by intuition, and music was the driving force behind that intuition. My discovery was the result of musical… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
![“If you want the film [La La Land ] to represent all things jazz, it does not. You'll be disappointed by that. But, if you just see it as one guy's point of view, one filmmaker's point of view, and one story among many stories that can be told about jazz, then it's not as much of an issue.” quote by John Legend](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2d6/john-legend-1666_all-things_if-you-want-the-film-la-la-land-to-repre_703689.png)
![“I would sit in at a jazz brunch [at sweet Basil] with Eddie Chamblee, who was a great tenor player. Really a kind man. The whole band was great.” quote by Jon Gordon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bc6/jon-gordon-1655_band_i-would-sit-in-at-a-jazz-brunch-at-sweet_1147668.png)
![“This all came of a conversation I had with [John] Steinbeck once when we were standing in a men's room somewhere. Steinbeck asked me why I didn't play the banjo any more and I told him that went out with the high-button shoes.” quote by Eddie Condon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d25/eddie-condon-39026_banjo_this-all-came-of-a-conversation-i-had-wi_1847661.png)
