Karl Johnson, my first piano player at Milt Trenier's, he just swung really hard and gave me a sense of really belonging… — Kurt Elling Copy Share Image
My first experience with music was my father, he was a stereo buff and he built his own little Hi-Fi center with… — Ronnie Montrose Copy Share Image
We can all be grateful that there is a place like (University of) North Texas! North Texas has been unique among schools… — Peter Erskine Copy Share Image
And what gift of America to the rest of the world is actually most appreciated by the rest of the world? It… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I remember my uncle, who was a jazz pianist, when we did Deep Purple 'In Rock,' he ran from the room screaming,… — Ian Gillan Copy Share Image
The lion's share of what I hear right now are people who, intentional or accidental, have avoided all jazz prior to 1960.… — Branford Marsalis Copy Share Image
People who love jazz musicians love us when we play what we want to play and we're starving. But as soon as… — George Benson Copy Share Image
I was very thrilled to witness the workby my ol' buddy Jim Widner whose expertise in the field of jazz education proved… — Clark Terry Copy Share Image
The summer before my third year of law school, I worked at a law firm in Washington, D.C. I turned 25 that… — Deval Patrick Copy Share Image
I was deeply impressed and moved by his masterful playing. He was highly polished, profound, subtle, and intense. He was extremely fluent… — Pete La Roca Copy Share Image
I was literally the last Jazz player left who played under Coach Sloan - and I always took that as a lot… — Gordon Hayward Copy Share Image
I'm very fortunate in that my parents are artists. My mom is a brilliant poet... She still is a great visual artist.… — Ari Aster Copy Share Image
In terms of exploring an identity in the country music world, what I realized very quickly was that there are people who… — Chris Carmack Copy Share Image
When you're working on a television show with actors, what you hope you're doing is playing jazz with them all the time.… — Remi Aubuchon Copy Share Image
I find that in California I can't find guys that have enough energy. They play a little bit and that's about it.… — Pharoah Sanders Copy Share Image
Ever since I was a kid, I've been into clothes, but not really labels- that's kind of only been in the last… — Lorde Copy Share Image
I began to realize that some of the things Ornette Coleman had said about things being played three or fours ways, independently… — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
Jazz brought this sense of democracy where four guys come together and your name may be on the marquee, but in this… — Al Jarreau Copy Share Image
I used to try to play like [Miles Davis], and Miles caught me copying him one night at Birdland. He said, 'Hey… — Freddie Hubbard Copy Share Image
D.C. is a great place. The music, jazz, has always been great here, the restaurants have always been fantastic here. And there's… — George Lopez Copy Share Image
How can music without any words make you think? I listen to jazz when I'm doing something else. I use it for… — Eddie Murphy Copy Share Image
All music now, I think, is fair game for jazz musicians to interpret, and they have been. I would consider those songs… — Patricia Barber Copy Share Image
If it comes out sounding like Dixieland jazz or classical or punk or rock or even slightly metal, that's because that's where… — Ben Harper Copy Share Image
I always had a great appreciation for jazz, but I'm a very pedestrian musician. I get by. I like to think that… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
We grew up listening to a variety of music, such as Gospel/Christian, R&B old/new school, jazz, blues, Mozart, Mary Poppins, Frank Sinatra,… — Michelle Carter Copy Share Image
All the jazz guys had interracial relationships, and even the ladies did. Over the years, interracial relationships have been a hip, almost… — Quincy Jones Copy Share Image
I take a jazz class and I also take just a regular exercise class with a man who gives me acupressure treatments.… — Jessica Lange Copy Share Image
A gripper of a read . . . Silence revives the cliff’s-edge drama of those Jazz age climbs and drives home the… — Bruce Barcott Copy Share Image
In classical music, love is based on bitin' -- imitation. It's not based on interpretation. A jazz musician, if he plays someone… — Todd Boyd Copy Share Image
I studied classical music for a year. Then, I studied jazz for a year at the New School, and then I got… — Andrew Wyatt Copy Share Image
Ornette Coleman is doing the only really new thing in jazz since the innovations in the mid-forties of Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker,… — John Lewis Copy Share Image
I always told the people at Cal Arts that if they wanted me to do Jazz studies, first of all, there couldn't… — Charlie Haden Copy Share Image
For me it's the high-water mark of American culture - not so much contemporary jazz, which has become kind of academic, but… — Flea Copy Share Image
I was really running a music school back then, because my band wasn't making any money. I keep talking about money, because… — Artie Shaw Copy Share Image
“In every sphere of social interaction, that hermeneutic leap—that ability to put yourself in the mind frame of the other—is a virtue… — Ted Gioia Copy Share Image
My years of ballet and jazz dance lessons didn't make me any more graceful - they just helped keep me from bumping… — Toni Tennille Copy Share Image
I was considered as a jazz man rather than as a blues player. There were no blues players-you played one sort of… — Alexis Korner Copy Share Image
As a singer, I've been criticized for sounding feminine. They say I don't belong in any category, male or female, pop or… — Jimmy Scott Copy Share Image
I love singing jazz. I don't like the idea that classical music should be over here and jazz should be someplace else.… — Jessye Norman Copy Share Image
I think we've all had enough of Coltrane saxophonists. There's a case of someone ruining a generation of saxophonists, as Louis Armstrong… — Paul Bley Copy Share Image
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