My first Grammy wasn't even in a jazz category, but of course I was really excited. 'Rockit' was the beginning of kind… — Herbie Hancock Copy Share Image
There's such a wealth of arts and styles within the guitar... flamenco, jazz, rock, blues... you name it, it's there. In the… — Jimmy Page Copy Share Image
I always tell people that, just to be a bad jazz musician, you have to be better than most musicians. The worst… — Robert Glasper Copy Share Image
I would say I'm an outlier. Nobody in my family does anything creative, though my dad loved jazz and my mum likes… — Arlo Parks Copy Share Image
At this point we've answered about every question you could possibly imagine about Deep Space Nine, so we do this thing called… — Rene Auberjonois Copy Share Image
Back in the day, being a young, inspired bass player, I started to gravitate toward jazz fusion. I almost would have called… — Robert Trujillo Copy Share Image
I still go out, but not a lot. If I go to see music, it's usually to the Blue Note, jazz clubs,… — Jonathan Demme Copy Share Image
I think that's what really a substantial work is, it's forever. It's the truth now and it was the truth then, and… — Abbey Lincoln Copy Share Image
People sometimes forget that jazz was built not only in the minds of the great ones but on the backs of the… — Cab Calloway Copy Share Image
Nobody would know it to look at me, but the movies I liked as a kid were musicals - 'All That Jazz,'… — Juliette Lewis Copy Share Image
I went to school for engineering, I studied jazz. So I always had this kind of creative side and technical side, and… — Joseph Kosinski Copy Share Image
Jazz is not the popular culture. Jazz is in the same position in our culture as classical music. A very small minority… — John Corigliano Copy Share Image
I think jazz is a phenomenal creative force, because it's one man, one vote as you're playing, but it's a collective thing,… — Herb Alpert Copy Share Image
I was going to say is that I come from a rock background, but also I was super interested in jazz for… — Jherek Bischoff Copy Share Image
The world I live in is benefiting from things like satellite radio. Jazz and blues fests are everywhere now, and Americana is… — Bonnie Raitt Copy Share Image
The people know more about [Jazz] in other countries than in America. America is the last country to know about anything, because… — Art Blakey Copy Share Image
I played saxophone, so I was into jazz. I learned from each audience and each teacher that I had. I can't really… — Chad Hugo Copy Share Image
Jazz isn't dead yet. It's the underpinning of everything in this country. Whether it's a Broadway show, or fusion, or right on… — Dave Brubeck Copy Share Image
Elvis might have compromised his musical style a bit towards the end, but that doesn't mean that artists from the rock n'… — Bonnie Raitt Copy Share Image
I live on an island and listen to jazz all day long. The sun is always shining, but you can still see… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Music is a plane of wisdom, because music is a universal language, it is a language of honor, it is a noble… — Sun Ra Copy Share Image
I'd been a wedding singer through college, but after a few years of doing my best renditions of jazz standards to clinking… — Idina Menzel Copy Share Image
“Jazz tells Lucy to relax and tries to kick her under the table. I know this because she kicks me instead. "Aim… — Cath Crowley Copy Share Image
I always hated jazz guitar. I loved jazz saxophone but I hated jazz guitar. If I would buy an organ trio record… — Tom Verlaine Copy Share Image
I'd been studying philosophy at the University of Chicago. I hadn't been doing well, because I was sitting in with jazz musicians… — Kurt Elling Copy Share Image
I don't play the traditional Charlie Parker songs. But I do improvise and I do create with my instrument, and that to… — Kenny G Copy Share Image
It ["Begin the Beguine"] became such a hit that it superseded anything that any band had ever had. It was the first… — Artie Shaw Copy Share Image
I never had much interest in the piano until I realized that every time I played, a girl would appear on the… — Duke Ellington Copy Share Image
A short story relies on those values that make poetry and jazz what they are: tension, rhythms, inner beat, into unforeseen within… — Julio Cortazar Copy Share Image
I just got to hear every note. After I left Birdland, I started working at the Jazz Gallery. In the end, I… — Carla Bley Copy Share Image
There were a lot of different styles in the house - Motown, Led Zeppelin, Rolling Stones, jazz - and my dad played… — Robert Trujillo Copy Share Image
My big influences are Joni Mitchell, and a lot of classical and Indian music, as well as Nina Simone and the personal… — Yael Naim Copy Share Image
I already experimented with free jazz in the 1960s and, in my opinion, to play free jazz, you have to be a… — John McLaughlin Copy Share Image
In Jazz, improvisation isn't a matter of just making any ol' thing up. Jazz, like any language, has its own grammer and… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
There were so many specific things from high school jazz band that I remembered: the conductor searching out people who were out… — Damien Chazelle Copy Share Image
For me, I listened to a lot of female jazz artists. And of course, the Motown and Philly sounds, all that stuff… — Philip Bailey Copy Share Image
I think when you love music, you love a lot of it. Now when it comes to jazz, it's very much in… — Charles Lloyd Copy Share Image
I was serious about ballet for a long time, but my mom got me into tap and jazz and modern and hip-hop,… — Greta Gerwig Copy Share Image
I find Indian music very funky. I mean it's very soulful, with their own kind of blues. But it's the only other… — John McLaughlin Copy Share Image
If there had never been the Great Migration there would never have been jazz, there would never have been Michelle Obama. A… — Ayana Mathis Copy Share Image
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