Certainly one of the more common experiences in the jazz field is discovering someone new. Improvising musicians are capable of being musical… — Gary Burton Copy Share Image
It doesn't matter if I ever win another award or get to play another major jazz festival in America. I would rather… — Christian Scott Copy Share Image
Whether I do jazz or R&B, there are always complaints. I would just listen to the complaints about what I do instead… — Ledisi Copy Share Image
One thing that sticks in my mind is that jazz means freedom and openness. It's a music that, although it developed out… — Herbie Hancock Copy Share Image
My brothers came home with country, jazz, everything... it was always very normal to me to make any type of music. It… — Labrinth Copy Share Image
For me personally - because I do it myself - the scoring of a picture is fun. I edit the picture and… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
Our approach is more the jazz approach, where you learn to play your instrument as well as you can, develop your craft,… — Butch Trucks Copy Share Image
My grandma was a church organist for 40 years, and she got me into jazz music and great songwriters, Harold Arlen, George… — Zach Anner Copy Share Image
I think L.A. has one of the most innovative and forward-thinking jazz scenes in the world. New York definitely has the volume… — Kamasi Washington Copy Share Image
People always ask, "Why jazz?" and I'm like "Why not?" It's kind of like asking Seurat, "Why so many dots?" I imagine… — Melody Gardot Copy Share Image
That's kinda what happened to me: I listened to jazz, country, R&B, rock 'n' roll. And when I sat down to write… — J. J. Cale Copy Share Image
I shined off high school band, marching, jazz studies. At the time I was too cool for school, I had this professional… — Eric Hernandez Copy Share Image
I don't want to do free jazz! Because free jazz - which is the musical equivalent of free marketeering - isn't actually… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
In jazz improv, there is no such thing as wrong notes, only notes that are better chosen and it's not about the… — Larry Carlton Copy Share Image
My demographic is very broad. Once they come, they had an idea about jazz, and then they hear me, and they come… — Dianne Reeves Copy Share Image
I go down to New York, do the project, and leave. I have no interest in participating in the rat race down… — Paul Smoker Copy Share Image
I want to expand jazz; I don't want to keep the audience limited. I want to reach people who have never come… — Charlie Haden Copy Share Image
I feel very, very gratified when people are complimentary to what I have done or appreciated it with sincerity... It makes me… — Elvin Jones Copy Share Image
Actors have to make you believe that it's happening for the first time and all that jazz and make it human and… — Tom Sizemore Copy Share Image
I stayed with them for about a year up there and, at night, worked over in Long Island at a club called… — William Bell Copy Share Image
In the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra we play such a diversity of music, with 10 arrangers in the band, we don't… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
I think people psych themselves out before they listen to jazz a lot, thinking that they have to, like, put on a… — Kamasi Washington Copy Share Image
[My] style evolved, not changed, but I think evolved as I grew and matured. I don't think there was any kind of… — Kenny Burrell Copy Share Image
I came from a strong jazz/ singer-songwriter/folk influence, but in L.A., I learned how to have a balance between all these genres… — Yuna Copy Share Image
I had trained a bit in Bharatanatyam in the past but did not learn in depth. The same goes with jazz, western,… — Keerthy Suresh Copy Share Image
What basketball expresses is what jazz expresses. Certain cultural predispositions to make art. All African-American art has a substratum, or baseline, of… — John Edgar Wideman Copy Share Image
I always thought jazz was like the trunk of a tree. After the tree has grown, many branches have spread out. They're… — Earl Hines Copy Share Image
Everything-everything-was communicated through the sound of the music. There were no other signals of any kind ever-no count-offs, head nods, spoken instructions...nothing. — Chuck Israels Copy Share Image
Benny Goodman's band was integrated before baseball. Even before it was physically integrated, music was integrated. Everyone listened to Armstrong and Ellington.… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
Barney Kessel was 'Mr. Guitar,' the foremost jazz guitarist of his generation. He had an amazing imagination, his solos were incredible, he… — Larry Coryell Copy Share Image
But in Shimabukuro's hands, as he breaks out experimental jazz, lays down a steady blues train, or shreds on rock anthems, this… — Mother Jones Copy Share Image
Not with the Rochester Philharmonic, but I formed my own orchestra, made up of musicians from the Eastman School, where I'm on… — Chuck Mangione Copy Share Image
Humans are imperfect. That's one of the reasons that classical and jazz are in trouble. We're on the quest for the perfect… — Branford Marsalis Copy Share Image
I listen to everything: noise, classical, jazz. I like lots of different types of food. There's no way you could get me… — Samuel Ervin Beam Copy Share Image
She is amazingly creative, bringing so much more to a song than just a singer. She is a first-class musician and the… — Ella Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
These magic moments when rhythms and harmonies extend themselves and jell together and the people become another instrument. These things are priceless… — Andrew Hill Copy Share Image
Even when I was studying musical theater in college, after I would have theory at 8 in the morning and be on… — Joshua Henry Copy Share Image
I just try to do as good job with the material as I can and play some jazz as well, some improvised… — Mose Allison Copy Share Image
I always tell my students when you're going to be a jazz musician the first thing you've got to do is be… — Lester Bowie Copy Share Image
Just figure out what you think jazz is, and then if it fits into that category, it's jazz, and if it doesn't,… — Kenny G Copy Share Image
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