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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
We've played so many places where, if you asked people, 'Do you like jazz?' they would be like, 'Not at all.' But… — Kamasi Washington Copy Share Image
