There's an ecstatic side to writing. It's like jazz. It just has a life. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
One of the things I like about jazz, kid, is I don't know what's going to happen next. Do you? — Bix Beiderbecke Copy Share Image
It's like jazz: You learn the rules to break them - as long as you can break them in a meaningful way. — Ryan North Copy Share Image
Other than conversation, no other art form can give the satisfaction of spontaneous interaction like Jazz. — Stan Getz Copy Share Image
I like mellow music. I like some jazz. But I'm not a big hard rock guy. — Gary Carter Copy Share Image
To me, 'Blue Like Jazz' is a quintessential American story. So many people are just like Don - raised Christian and go… — Marshall Allman Copy Share Image
Eclecticism is the word. Like a jazz musician who creates his own style out of the styles around him, I play by… — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
Understanding is the least important thing when it comes to digging jazzbecause, like anything else, jazz is a form of entertainment. It… — Cannonball Adderley Copy Share Image
I like jazz, but I could never play it. You just sit there with a guitar the size of a Chevy on… — Dave Mustaine Copy Share Image
I didn't really like jazz that much and was unhappy in that genre. It was what I was doing just to get… — Yukimi Nagano Copy Share Image
If you like rock and roll, if you like rhythm and blues, if you like jazz, if you like hip-hop, you might… — Laurence Fishburne Copy Share Image
I do subscribe to the maxim that generally comedy is like jazz. Either you get it or you don't. You can't learn… — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
I used to think that running an organization was equivalent to conducting a symphony orchestra. But I don't think that's quite it;… — Warren G. Bennis Copy Share Image
My folks have played everything from rock, disco, pop, funk, and blues. My dad has always brought and played different genres like… — Haley Reinhart Copy Share Image
I used to think that running an organization was equivalent to conducting a symphony orchestra. But I don't think that's quite it;… — Warren G. Bennis Copy Share Image
My thing was, I loved music. I played music: I played the saxophone. So the little bit of music knowhow I had,… — Rakim Copy Share Image
If you asked people, "Do you like jazz?" they would be like, "not at all." But I think that if you're really… — Kamasi Washington 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
The artist is very lucky, because in an art form that's spontaneous like jazz, that's when you really see your true self.… — Charlie Haden Copy Share Image
It's really not a stretch. The checks and balances are the same. The drums are the executive branch. The jazz orchestra is… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
Improvisation sometimes seemed more like jazz than acting, like verbal jazz, with the actors playing a theme back and forth, and then… — Alan Arkin Copy Share Image
“Jazz presumes that it would be nice if the four of us--simpatico dudes that we are--while playing this complicated song together, might… — Dave Hickey Copy Share Image
Jazz presumes that it would be nice if the four of us-simpatico dudes that we are-while playing this complicated song together, might… — Dave Hickey Copy Share Image
I'd like to be a jazz singer, but I couldn't possibly do it; nobody would want me, anyway. — Deborah Moggach Copy Share Image
Boxing is like jazz. The better it is, the less people appreciate it. — George Foreman Copy Share Image
One thing I like about jazz is that it emphasized doing things differently from what other people were doing. — Herbie Hancock Copy Share Image
When I'm working behind a camera, I feel like I'm trying to achieve something like a jazz musician does. — Jack Welpott Copy Share Image
