“One two, one two, Type a word or two. Arrow left, arrow right, Keep those fingers nice and tight. Keys up, Keys… — Jazz Feylynn Copy Share Image
I've got my own studio, and I've got four- to five-hundred unreleased tracks. I've got stuff that's electronic, orchestral, jazz, I've got… — Serj Tankian Copy Share Image
“The guitar poured out its soul, its history, its dreams, its pain, its victories, its secrets. The guitar’s strings purred with blues… — Brenda Sutton Rose Copy Share Image
If you're more interested in looking like a hipster, a jazz musician, or a young hunk, I'd recommend the pork pie. It… — Roger Stone Copy Share Image
The Ertegun Jazz Hall of Fame will provide a center where the lives and the artistry of the greatest jazz musicians will… — Ahmet Ertegun Copy Share Image
But if you listen to great piano players, both classical and jazz, there's a huge range of dynamics and colors and emotional… — Gary Burton Copy Share Image
How do I know why Miles walks off the stage? Why don't you ask him? And besides, maybe we'd all like to… — Dizzy Gillespie Copy Share Image
I don't know who will overcome losses, some losses aren't meant to be overcome, but all losses make for good stories and… — Kirsten Vangsness Copy Share Image
Negro music has touched America because it is the melody of the soul joined with the rhythm of the machine. It is… — Le Corbusier Copy Share Image
Cultures have long heard wisdom in non-human voices: Apollo, god of music, medicine and knowledge, came to Delphi in the form of… — Jay Griffiths Copy Share Image
Jazz should be recognized as music of the people, based in a lot of accents and melodies. What is jazz but music… — Al Jarreau Copy Share Image
Jazz musicians can be great teachers of business. Their creativity is not dependent on their mood, it does not have to be… — John Kao Copy Share Image
So for all that we might speak words in each other's vicinity, this could never develop into anything that could be called… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
To my ears, jazz sounds better in warm weather and after the sun has gone down. While I will listen to some… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
At the end of the day, what are genres? I've spent my whole life trying to fit into some sort of box.… — Laufey Copy Share Image
I was deeply influenced by the sartorial practices of both preachers and jazz musicians and actually Masha in Act One of Anton… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Justin Di Cioccio led a jazz program at Music and Art, but there was no jazz in Performing Arts. After they joined,… — Jon Gordon Copy Share Image
I'm always doubting because I've been told so much that, you're not the right look or you're not the right sound, and,… — Ledisi Copy Share Image
It's the honesty you apply to your playing that makes music enjoyable. The style of the music has little to do with… — Elvin Jones Copy Share Image
For me, the bold jazz of John Coltrane and Miles Davis reflected the bold attitude in African-Americans finding their political identity and… — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Copy Share Image
There is an apprenticeship system in jazz. You teach the young ones. So even if the musicians weren't personally that likable, they… — Dave Van Ronk Copy Share Image
I never gave up on that idea, you know, that jazz musicians have the same opportunity as everybody else and that it's… — George Benson Copy Share Image
Making money ain't nothing exciting to me. You might be able to buy a little better booze than the wino on the… — Louis Armstrong Copy Share Image
Through improvisation, jazz teaches you about yourself. And through swing, it teaches you that other people are individuals too. It teaches you… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
Any live venue where there is alcohol served and it's past midnight there is gonna be fights. It doesn't matter if it's… — Slaine Copy Share Image
I have a few go-to moves like jazz hands, shake the booty, stupid eyes. It was once a mating ritual, but now… — John Cho Copy Share Image
My dad actually taught me how to play piano. I was classically trained, but I've started to branch off a little bit… — Noah Gray-Cabey Copy Share Image
I would advise you to keep your overhead down; avoid a major drug habit; play everyday, and take it front of other… — James Taylor Copy Share Image
My mother would take me to jazz concerts in the park and everybody was smoked out. She gave me the intro and… — Prefuse 73 Copy Share Image
As a kid, I would wake up, and there'd be a jazz funeral while I'm walking to school. And when I come… — Trombone Shorty Copy Share Image
When I was in eighth standard, I have been dancing since then. I love to dance. Dance has been my life all… — Radhika Madan Copy Share Image
To be honest, I don't have a particular recipe, but I normally start with the chord progression and then I build it… — Tom Misch Copy Share Image
You ask: What is it that philosophers have called qualitative states? I answer, only half in jest: As Louis Armstrong said when… — Ned Block Copy Share Image
I was playing organ at a silent movie house at Harlem and they'd be showing some death scene on the screen. Likely… — Fats Waller Copy Share Image
How great musicians demonstrate a mutual respect and trust on the bandstand can alter your outlook on the world and enrich every… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
When I was playing piano, it was like, 'I'm going to write a song using all the white keys.' My music director,… — John Tesh Copy Share Image
The brain is only three pounds of blood, dream, and electricity, and yet from that mortal stew come Beethoven's sonatas. Dizzie Gillespie's… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
I grew up listening to hipster jazz and classical records... we went and watched ballet and orchestras - lots of cool stuff.… — Courtney Barnett Copy Share Image
Scott Tixier is an exciting young jazz violinist and is making an international name for himself. I heard him in France and… — Marcus Miller Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, I wanted desperately to be a jazz musician. I would practice the trumpet for hours, but when… — Zach Woods Copy Share Image
