I say, play your own way. Don't play what the public want - you play what you want and let the public… — Thelonious Monk Copy Share Image
The way jazz works is that we take a theme, and then we write using the same structure, same chord changes, and… — Tommy Chong Copy Share Image
It's the repetitive thing that brings space. That's one of the things I love secretly about hip-hop. Jazz doesn't have that element.… — Robert Glasper Copy Share Image
But if you listen to great piano players, both classical and jazz, theres a huge range of dynamics and colors and emotional… — Gary Burton Copy Share Image
As I got older, I started to do it more and more, and I wanted to learn all of the different types.… — Jillian Hervey Copy Share Image
The whole gist of 'All That Jazz' is Faustian. It's about a man who sells his soul to show business - which… — Ann Reinking Copy Share Image
There's a small group of music critics in the States who will forgive you anything - jazz, a long prison term, or… — Andre Previn Copy Share Image
Well, jazz is to me, a complete lifestyle. It's bigger than a word. It's a much bigger force than just something that… — Ray Brown Copy Share Image
If I wasn't in the entertainment industry at all, I would be a miserable human being serving pancakes at Denny's. I'm also… — Miranda Rae Mayo Copy Share Image
As a kid, I would listen to anything that had a live orchestra or ensemble playing, so that covered everything from show… — Michael Giacchino Copy Share Image
The Democrat Party today is not enamored of Bill Clinton. They may not even be enamored of Hillary [Clinton]. But the things… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Jazz is not the kind of music you are going to learn to play in three or four years or that you… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
If you play the very subtle jazz tunes with acoustic pianos, acoustic bass and it's a dead standard, you are going to… — Lee Ritenour Copy Share Image
The first jazz cruise that I was on was '91. I played with Maria Schneider and John Fedchock's band. Got to meet… — Jon Gordon Copy Share Image
Jazz songs have always been quite literal because many of them are taken from musical theater and you only have a couple… — Laufey Copy Share Image
I was taking chemical engineering. But I went into the army after that. When I came out of the army, I was… — Mose Allison Copy Share Image
I've sung a whole lot of jazz. It's my favorite style of music to sing. People don't realize it, because they're so… — Brian Stokes Mitchell Copy Share Image
I wanted to look at the mentality that can breed that sort of intensity, that kind of cutthroat, pressure-cooker feeling, especially a… — Damien Chazelle Copy Share Image
I grew up in Shanghai 'til I was 10 or 11, with one year in Tibet. When I was 5 or 6… — Peter Max Copy Share Image
If I had to look at 'Now He Sings'... from outside myself, I see it as a natural part of the growth… — Chick Corea Copy Share Image
Jazz infers a style, but creative music has a wider field and wider specification about it. We know it from people like… — Wadada Leo Smith Copy Share Image
I always dreamt of being in 'Kerrang.' That was my ambition. I read that religiously when I was into heavy metal. Then… — Julian Barratt Copy Share Image
I've never heard anything Wynton [Marsalis] played sound like it meant anything at all. Wynton has no voice and no presence. His… — Keith Jarrett Copy Share Image
Kenny G is not real jazz. I don't even think Wynton Marsalis is real jazz. I don't think Harry Connick Jr. is… — John Lurie Copy Share Image
I love nineties stuff like Alice in Chains and Nine Inch Nails. It'd be my dream to have a Radiohead-themed episode of… — Mark Salling Copy Share Image
People think jazz music is all standards and the Great American Songbook. But it's really about the sensibility, the feel you bring… — Dianne Reeves Copy Share Image
I listen to all types of music. I listen to a lot of hip hop, but I also listen to pop and… — Tobias Harris Copy Share Image
I have been steadily exchanging a rock audience who were nervous about what they had just bought for a jazz audience who… — Bill Bruford Copy Share Image
American films are the best films. This is a fact. Cinema is - along with Jazz - the great American art form.… — Ben Dreyfuss Copy Share Image
Kansas City Lightning succeeds as few biographies of jazz musicians have. . . This book is a magnificent achievement; I could hardly… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
You see, pops, that's the kind of talk that's ruining the music. Everyone's trying to do something new, no one trying to… — Louis Armstrong Copy Share Image
Miles Davis fully embraced possibilities and delved into it. He was criticized heavily from the jazz side. He was supposed to be… — Bill Laswell Copy Share Image
There's a wonderful tradition of jazz people getting on stage and jamming and finding some feeling for music with audiences who may… — Al Jarreau Copy Share Image
We get along, we talk music.Lenny Kravitz took me to Harlem to see this little jazz show in the back of a… — Penn Dayton Badgley Copy Share Image
To say that the Afro American created jazz doesn't mean anything bad about Anglo Americans, and I always teach my younger jazz… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
[John Coltrane] liked my qualities as a person and that's the reason why he let me play with him. It wasn't what… — Pharoah Sanders Copy Share Image
Jazz has been such a force in music, that any musician, including classical composers, have been influenced, and obviously performers, also. — Yo-Yo Ma Copy Share Image
I listened to a lot of Amy Winehouse: her albums 'Frank' and 'Back to Black'. She was such an incredible artist. She… — Daya Copy Share Image
When pop and rock were taking over from jazz, and Sinatra was covering a Beatles song, it was all very new. I… — Michael Buble Copy Share Image
Lately, my mind is like an orchestra. If you don't have the conductor, you don't know what to do. One guy is… — Goran Ivanisevic Copy Share Image
![“The Democrat Party today is not enamored of Bill Clinton. They may not even be enamored of Hillary [Clinton]. But the things that jazzed Democrats back in the nineties are nowhere near the things that jazz the Democrats of today.” quote by Rush Limbaugh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/825/rush-limbaugh-28_bills_the-democrat-party-today-is-not-enamored_29776.jpg)
![“I've never heard anything Wynton [Marsalis] played sound like it meant anything at all. Wynton has no voice and no presence. His music sounds like a talented high-school trumpet player to me... he's jazzy the same way someone who drives a BMW is sporty.” quote by Keith Jarrett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/151/keith-jarrett-16919_bmw_i-ve-never-heard-anything-wynton-marsali_1148495.png)
![“[John Coltrane] liked my qualities as a person and that's the reason why he let me play with him. It wasn't what I was doing musically or my instrument or anything like that. He let me play whatever I wanted to play.” quote by Pharoah Sanders](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dbd/pharoah-sanders-51634_coltrane_john-coltrane-liked-my-qualities-as-a-pe_2964373.jpg)
