In a way, the history of jazz's development is a small mirror of classical music's development through the centuries. Now jazz is… — Mike Figgis Copy Share Image
Jazz has always been my first love. It has this timeless effect on me. It's pretty odd that I didn't become a… — Philip Bailey Copy Share Image
My brother Leon started it all. He played the piano. In school they made me leader of the orchestra because I played… — Louis Prima Copy Share Image
I'm primarily thought of as a rocker, and certainly 'Frankenstein' had a very dramatic power rock image. It was almost a precursor… — Edgar Winter Copy Share Image
I don't just write music to esthetically satisfy somebody. The reason I write music is that I feel it's a vehicle or… — George Russell Copy Share Image
Clint Eastwood said, the only things America has contributed to civilization are the western and jazz. And I don't think westerns are… — Robert Wyatt Copy Share Image
Jazz is capable of doing much more than depicting the dope fiend and the drunk and the slinky gal. In our show… — Henry Mancini Copy Share Image
People like to compartmentalise music, especially African-American music, but it's really one thing. One very wide thing. I mean, it's like all… — Kamasi Washington Copy Share Image
Bop began with Jazz but one afternoon somewhere on a sidewalk maybe 1939, 1940, Dizzy Gillespie or Charlie Parker or Thelonious Monk… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
...people will go for anything they don't understand if it's got enough hype. They want to be hip, want always to be… — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
In this country, particularly, actually in times that are difficult, or from corners of America where you least expect it, unbelievable pure… — Baz Luhrmann Copy Share Image
We used to rehearse and that's where the roots of Dream Theater formed. Y'know, we used to play cover songs and jam… — John Petrucci Copy Share Image
I haven't got a great jazz band and I don't want one. Some of the critics, Down Beat's among them, point their… — Glenn Miller Copy Share Image
Music, that has mostly earned a 'film music' status in our country, leaves genres like jazz, folk and classical to the niche.… — Shweta Basu Prasad Copy Share Image
I once took a ride to the beach in L.A., and all along the shore there were all these so-called jazz places.… — Jeff Buckley Copy Share Image
I love Ray Charles. He can still teach everybody a lot about how to make great music. Not necessarily how to make… — Ahmet Ertegun Copy Share Image
Since my father is a musician as well, he taught me growing up that if you can play jazz, you can learn… — Meghan Trainor Copy Share Image
The music I like best is kind of frozen in my mind from the Sixties and Seventies. I still listen to the… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
I have learned a lot from jazz. I compare good acting to jazz music. The more you study and prepare as an… — Nat Wolff Copy Share Image
I suppose technically I could say I'm based in jazz, just because it's the school of thought that I've been encouraging myself… — Jacob Collier Copy Share Image
The thing is this: When I play, what I try to do is to reach my subconscious level. I don't want to… — Sonny Rollins Copy Share Image
Jazz is the favorite music [of America]. It is a type of music invented by [American] Blacks to please their primitive tendencies… — Sayyid Qutb Copy Share Image
'Soulfire' is a collection of stuff I've done in the past. Each song is an element of who I am: There's a… — Steven Van Zandt Copy Share Image
I give bird songs to those who dwell in cities and have never heard them, make rhythms for those who know only… — Olivier Messiaen Copy Share Image
I think jazz is the foundation for a lot of great musicians, and then after that, you know, it's this broad expression… — Dianne Reeves Copy Share Image
I'll always work with Stones Throw, but I'm trying to start my own label to release my old material and sign new… — Madlib Copy Share Image
But I don't have anything to prove. My reputation is what it is. It seems that a lot of gay men are… — Fred Hersch Copy Share Image
And over the last ten years, after my work with the Brodsky Quartet, I had the opportunity to write arrangements for chamber… — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
If you are in an improv jazz ensemble or a small chamber group, you learn to think fast on your feet and… — J. Richard Hackman Copy Share Image
In Europe they look upon jazz as art. In America it's a diversion. Somebody opens a restaurant and installs another band off… — Chet Baker Copy Share Image
Jazz is something that's constantly changing. Its sole purpose is to let people improvise, to let them solo differently each time they… — Allan Holdsworth Copy Share Image
I learned a lot about American history though jazz, and that's why I loved American history when I was in high school.… — Ron Cephas Jones Copy Share Image
I like to say, jazz music is kind of like my musical equivalent of comfort food. You know, it's always where I… — Molly Ringwald Copy Share Image
For me, great jazz records really feel like everyone in the room is playing together in a zone - and all the… — Benny Cassette Copy Share Image
I'm not supposed to be playing, the music is supposed to be playing me. I'm just supposed to be standing there with… — Sonny Rollins Copy Share Image
It's almost worse because you think that you're mature and classic when you're in the newsie cap jazz phase. It's not a… — Nick Kroll Copy Share Image
I think the singer/songwriter genre is going to be like bluegrass and jazz. You can make a living at it, but it's… — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
I think cool originates with the jazz culture in the '40s. There was probably cool before that, but that's when people started… — Alissa Quart Copy Share Image
Though the Jazz Age continued, it became less and less of an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children's party… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Liquid architecture. It's like jazz - you improvise, you work together, you play off each other, you make something, they make something.… — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
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