The greatest contribution jazz has made in music has been to replace the role of the conductor with a member of the… — Elvin Jones Copy Share Image
At 3 A.M., I'm still up watching videos of jazz heroes I never saw live. It's so thrilling. And not just the… — Bonnie Raitt Copy Share Image
Charlie Parker said, 'Jazz comes from who you are, where you've been, what you've done. If you don't live it, it won't… — David Dellinger Copy Share Image
It was the early days of Rock 'n' Roll in this country. We were all struggling to learn music, it might be… — Jim Sullivan Copy Share Image
If you didn't have the amalgam of Blacks and African-type sensibility and European sensibility, you wouldn't have jazz. Even in the negative… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
My dad was into jazz, so there was a lot of Thelonious Monk and Duke Ellington playing in the house, but also… — Arlo Parks Copy Share Image
I really don't. I have truly eclectic taste in music and I seem to cycle through phases in terms of to what's… — Rachel Miner Copy Share Image
I began with dance, doing ballet at 3, then tap, jazz, modern. Then I sang in church choirs, learned how to play… — Samantha Barks Copy Share Image
I've always romanticized the late '40s and '50s - the cars, jazz, the open roads and lack of pollution. Now there are… — Garrett Hedlund Copy Share Image
I started singing Folksongs with my mother when I was 6 years old. We sang at Folk festivals and concerts and schools.… — Vicki Sue Robinson Copy Share Image
“In his book Real Presences, George Steiner asks us to "imagine a society in which all talk about the arts, music and… — Geoff Dyer Copy Share Image
I'd rather call it "instrumental creative music," especially the music that I've been doing. If a person would hear that music, they… — Eldar Djangirov Copy Share Image
Improvisation sometimes seemed more like jazz than acting, like verbal jazz, with the actors playing a theme back and forth, and then… — Alan Arkin Copy Share Image
It doesn't matter if people are playing jazz or writing poetry. If they want to be successful, they need to learn how… — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
Jazz music should be inclusive. Smooth jazz to me rules out a certain kind of drama and a certain tension that I… — David Sanborn Copy Share Image
For the most part, 99 percent of jazz is boring; you've heard it before. People aren't doing anything creative that's extremely modern.… — Robert Glasper Copy Share Image
I grew up with classical music blasting in my parents' living room and my older brother's practicing saxophone in his room listening… — Josephine de La Baume Copy Share Image
Growing up, I listened to a lot of jazz and blues records - John Coltrane and Etta James. I was also really… — Alex Clare Copy Share Image
Thelonius Monk went over to Bird and Bud Powell and said, 'I told you guys to act crazy, but I didn't tell… — Charles Mingus Copy Share Image
I couldn't get my album played over the so-called smooth jazz stations. Jazz stations would not play it. You don't always know… — Roy Ayers Copy Share Image
Jazz is a music that really allows a person to express his deepest self, his most personal self - Africa being the… — Harold Land Copy Share Image
I suppose it was later on that I realized that there was some reaction among the musicians themselves, some of whom resented… — Ashley Kahn Copy Share Image
It wasn't hard coming off technical playing and playing the simplistic eighth notes the Ramones were known for. I'd always listened to… — Marky Ramone Copy Share Image
You can't seperate modern jazz from rock or from rhythm and blues - you can't seperate it. Because that's where it all… — Art Blakey Copy Share Image
I don't listen to a lot of music when I have my free time. But I'll go to a jazz club and… — Joshua Bell Copy Share Image
Now, jazz institutions are more readily available for young people, but for me, the institutions were the bands that I was in.… — Dianne Reeves Copy Share Image
I'm moved by a lot of different kinds of music, whether it's pop music or R&B or straight-ahead jazz or free or… — David Sanborn Copy Share Image
You have to enjoy playing. The old-timers did, and that's one reason why their music is a lasting music. I feel that… — Barry Harris Copy Share Image
The first job I ever had was singing in a jazz club when I was like 15 with my friend, and we… — Zooey Deschanel Copy Share Image
I guess my biggest influence was actually my Grandfather. He used to play old records on vinyl, and would play old jazz… — Ella Henderson Copy Share Image
Playing solo with an audience for an hour and 30 minutes without a break means I have to, as the jazz cats… — Laurence Fishburne Copy Share Image
It's a shame that jazz is now being turned into dried fruit. It's becoming quantized, diced and defined. It's becoming an idiom.… — Pat Metheny Copy Share Image
It's the old-school jazz mentality that I connect with the most. I dig the idea of the seeker, the guy who's always… — Flying Lotus Copy Share Image
In England, we'd leave school at 15 and go on to a college, and I went to further education in a town… — Donovan Copy Share Image
I like jazz, but I could never play it. You just sit there with a guitar the size of a Chevy on… — Dave Mustaine Copy Share Image
In September 2012, I got the blues pretty bad, so I stopped playing for a little while. I started to renew my… — Bill Ward Copy Share Image
Intimate singing had a wonderful style in the '30s and '40s. It came out of Broadway and the jazz of Louis Armstrong… — Tony Bennett Copy Share Image
It's one thing to just play a tune, or play a program of music, but it's another thing to practically create a… — Chick Corea Copy Share Image
In Malaysia, we have a lot of divas, like Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey singers. And they were all so so talented, just… — Yuna Copy Share Image
I mostly listen to very popular songs. But I'm a huge fan of Stevie Wonder, and I love jazz - Glenn Fredly,… — Joe Taslim Copy Share Image
