I love jazz and pop rock and country. I grew up listening to Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston, Def Leppard, AC/DC, Anne Murray… — Natalie MacMaster Copy Share Image
If you ask me, rockabilly has had a raw deal for far too long. People never shunned the blues or jazz the… — Imelda May Copy Share Image
If there's any such thing as a perfect man, I think John Coltrane was one. And I think that kind of perfection… — Elvin Jones Copy Share Image
Jazz is an interesting music. It's one of the few forms of music where everyone that's performing the music has a creative… — Kamasi Washington Copy Share Image
Jazz and poetry both involve a structure that may be familiar and to some extent predictable. And then, you try to create… — Robert Pinsky Copy Share Image
[Manhattan School Of Music] didn't' have a jazz undergraduate program at the time so I played a semester in the big band.… — Jon Gordon Copy Share Image
I didn't plan on rock-n-roll. I wanted to learn jazz; I got to know some people doing rock-n-roll with jazz, and I… — Robby Krieger Copy Share Image
People have taken time out of their day and spent their money to come sit down at a concert. And it's jazz… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
And if you look around, if you listen to some music nowdays, I'm not so optimistic...I have the feeling that some of… — Peter Brotzmann Copy Share Image
It's really not a stretch. The checks and balances are the same. The drums are the executive branch. The jazz orchestra is… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
“I remember once I asked Wayne for the time," Miller told Mercer. "He started talking to me about the cosmos and how… — Ben Ratliff Copy Share Image
I was listening to Jimi Hendrix and Pink Floyd, because that was new music for me. I really hadn't been up on… — Will Ferrell Copy Share Image
I met Gary (Burton) at the Wichita Jazz Festival when I was 18 -- he was one of my favorite musicians and… — Pat Metheny Copy Share Image
“I steal one glance over my shoulder as soon as we are far from the foreboding luminance of the neon glow, and… — Nathan Reese Maher Copy Share Image
When I'm working, I'm pretty busy with that, but when I'm not, yeah, I like to make music. I sing in jazz… — Alia Shawkat Copy Share Image
In my teen years and early twenties I was really interested in this fellaheen worlds that, of course, Kerouac invokes and wanting… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
“Music was my therapy, and after a few songs, I always felt stronger. It was crazy how jazz fixed the broken pieces… — Brittainy C. Cherry Copy Share Image
We didn't come here to set any fashions in music. We merely came to bring a much-needed touch of home to some… — Glenn Miller Copy Share Image
Something was still there, that something that distinguishes an artist from a performer: the revealing of self. Here I be. Not forlong,… — Studs Terkel Copy Share Image
I was a total music nerd. I grew up on Perry Street in the '80s. My father wrote books about jazz, so… — Andrew Wyatt Copy Share Image
As long as there are musicians who have a passion for spontaneity, for creating something thats never been before, the art form… — Charlie Haden Copy Share Image
I don't care who likes it or buys it. Because if you use that criterion, Mozart would never have written Don Giovanni,… — Charlie Parker Copy Share Image
People ask me to describe how I play, and the most obvious answer is that I'm a jazz influenced guitar player. But… — Larry Carlton Copy Share Image
The saxophone is actually a translation of the human voice, in my conception. All you can do is play melody. No matter… — Stan Getz Copy Share Image
Early on I was more interested in gypsy jazz music until rock and roll came around and I listened to a lot… — Denny Laine Copy Share Image
I would not describe myself as an avid jazz fan and I am not a jazz musician myself. However, that is not… — Nat Wolff Copy Share Image
I was in a competing company and have been dancing since I was four - ballet, tap, jazz, hip hop - so… — Tinashe Copy Share Image
I went to jazz school. Not to say I'm a great jazz musician, but I studied under some great teachers. It was… — Robert Trujillo Copy Share Image
“The Schnauzer listens to jazz. I listen to jazz because he likes it, and I have even gone to jazz concerts with… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
I've never aspired to make 'jazz music,' I simply aspired to make music that was in a word, self-soothing and relevant to… — Melody Gardot Copy Share Image
Whenever my dad wasn't practicing, he was listening to music. He had an amazing jazz collection, and my mom had stuff like… — Kamasi Washington Copy Share Image
When I sang that song, I felt it was almost as if some force had moved into my body. Things like that… — Rita Coolidge Copy Share Image
Finally Beiderbecke came out with a silver cornet. He put it to his lips and blew a phrase. The sound came out… — Eddie Condon Copy Share Image
Jazz doesn't have much to do with how I write songs, but I am a big fan. My favorites are Oscar Peterson,… — Timothy B. Schmit Copy Share Image
It's not easy to play in a framework that requires simplicity and to tastefully find ways to interject the kind of freedom… — Herbie Hancock Copy Share Image
You hear about the Duke Ellingtons, the Jimmie Luncefords, and the Fletcher Hendersons, but people sometimes forget that jazz was not only… — Cab Calloway Copy Share Image
What 'jazz' means to me is the worst kind of working conditions, the worst in cultural prejudice. The term 'jazz' has come… — Maxim Gorky Copy Share Image
I knew I could never be accepted as a straight-ahead jazz musician, nor would Iaccept myself as that. I would never be… — Anthony Davis Copy Share Image
When people ask me how is it I was a musician, I facetiously say that I'm a firm believer in reincarnation and… — George Shearing Copy Share Image
I figured, if someone wants to do classical music, or blues, or jazz, they move to an area where that's popular, and… — Jimmie Allen Copy Share Image
![“[Manhattan School Of Music] didn't' have a jazz undergraduate program at the time so I played a semester in the big band. There was a graduate program. But I wasn't really that involved in jazz yet.” quote by Jon Gordon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/196/jon-gordon-1655_band_manhattan-school-of-music-didn-t-have-a_2867269.jpg)
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