I will say, too, that lovemaking, if sincere, is one of the best ideas Satan put in the apple she gave to… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Hearing Marilyn Crispell play solo piano is like monitoring an active volcano. She is one of a very few pianists who rise… — Jon Pareles Copy Share Image
Jazz music celebrates life! Human life; the range of it, the absurdity of it, the ignorance of it, the greatness of it,… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
Music was not a big deal to me when I was in middle school. And then I slowly became a big jazz… — Nick Kroll Copy Share Image
Part of what I like to do with Brainfeeder is to get the younger kids hearing jazz, because they don't know where… — Flying Lotus Copy Share Image
Remember that a book is many drafts - mine certainly are. It's improvisation. It's as much jazz and the way we talk… — John Edgar Wideman Copy Share Image
I was always very leery of my piano playing. As a young kid, I wanted to be a jazz musician, but my… — Mike Stoller Copy Share Image
See, in the rock bands and stuff I was in, I'd always been a fairly animated performer, but when I played jazz,… — Jamie Cullum Copy Share Image
I like contemporary American literature and I like biographies and I like jazz and I like baseball and I like writers who… — Jonathan Frakes Copy Share Image
Jazz I regard as an American folk music; not the only one, but a very powerful one which is probably in the… — George Gershwin Copy Share Image
I listened to classical guitar and Spanish guitar, as well as jazz guitar players, rock and roll and blues. All of it.… — Boz Scaggs Copy Share Image
The only type of music I don't like is Dixieland jazz. It's just a little too happy and noisy for me. I… — Rick Moranis Copy Share Image
I did everything I could to not bring in any of the - any of the technical things I got from classical… — Cecile McLorin Salvant Copy Share Image
It's something that - jazz is one of the few things that you can go and listen to, I don't care where… — Billy Higgins Copy Share Image
I like to mix and match things so I'm infusing a little bit of jazz, a little bit of classical, a little… — Gino Vannelli Copy Share Image
Milton, of all people, gave the most perfect definition of the state of mind required to play jazz: ' with wanton heed… — Paul Desmond Copy Share Image
I think 'Horace Silver' was actually the first live jazz group I ever heard back when I was a kid in St.… — David Sanborn Copy Share Image
Jazz is like a big secret club. The mainstream media doesn't pay any attention to it, it's like 1 percent of the… — Robert Glasper Copy Share Image
Communication is the essential medium of a creative culture: the communal sea in which we all swim. A company that can't communicate… — John Kao Copy Share Image
I had a very thorough grounding in music; I'd grown up around songs. My parents listened to a lot of music. My… — Laura Mvula Copy Share Image
Sometimes there are no gigs, but the main thing is the music. You can't take that away. The only person who can… — Mike Stern Copy Share Image
During our first meeting, Tony Iommi was a great jazz guitarist, his capabilities cover all styles - Black Sabbath has even narrowed… — Geezer Butler Copy Share Image
I'm playing jazz throughout the song 'Black Sabbath.' That's what it is there. I mean, I'm moving some other things around, but… — Bill Ward Copy Share Image
People like Art Blakey and Buddy Rich, you look at them playing music, and it's just like looking at a heavy metal… — Damien Chazelle Copy Share Image
I think the people who are saying jazz has to sound a particular way, or, 'What you're doing isn't jazz,' are just… — Robert Glasper Copy Share Image
I have some friends, and they're super-hipster. And they're like, 'All I wanna do is sing in a jazz bar and to… — Zara Larsson Copy Share Image
I dabble in the jazz world, which is male-dominated. If you had two women playing together, it became a shtick. It becomes… — Meshell Ndegeocello Copy Share Image
There was a period which I refer to as the 'Golden Age of Jazz,' which sort of encompasses the middle Thirties through… — Sonny Rollins Copy Share Image
When I was young, I played the piano and studied classical music and jazz. I wanted to be a concert pianist, and… — Christopher Plummer Copy Share Image
As we all know, the evil of slavery and the sting of the whip have given us many things including the voice… — Thomas Chatterton Williams Copy Share Image
My training in music has been very eclectic - as first a flute player from classical chamber music to jazz, Greek, Brazilian… — Alexandre Desplat Copy Share Image
I closed my own jazz bar so I could be a man who can write novels as I like. I was pleased… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Everybody's not going to like jazz, let's just be honest about it. Everybody doesn't like everything. There's a disconnect in generations and… — Robert Glasper Copy Share Image
In Berkley, they have academic studies on all genres of music including rock and jazz, but in India, we don't have serious… — Rajiv Menon Copy Share Image
One very important thing I learned from Monk was his complete dedication to music. That was his reason for being alive. Nothing… — Sonny Rollins Copy Share Image
I could hear music playing in the background of works by certain authors, like Poe and Shakespeare. And I discovered Nikki Giovanni… — Jill Scott Copy Share Image
A dancer is a dancer. If I can do jazz, then I can also do modern jazz, break and Hindi dance also.… — Arshad Warsi Copy Share Image
When I was about 18, I really started diving into Dave Matthews Band and John Mayer Trio and some of those things… — Lauren Daigle Copy Share Image
Jazz took too much discipline. You have to come in at the right place, which is different than me singing the blues,… — Etta James Copy Share Image
I can only be me. I do what I do, I'm not a jazz player. ... I don't play jazz standards, at… — Jorma Kaukonen Copy Share Image
