Composing Quote by Andre Previn

I find that jazz loosens up the deep place of my mind, lets me find my own strange rhythms. Generally, I find the knottier…

— Paul Lynch

Beyond that, it gets down to the nuts and bolts of discipline - not a tradition or genre, I don't care about that, actually…

— Vijay Iyer

Growing up playing jazz and improvising has had a big impact on me, and it translates into my music.

— Stephen Bruner

Jazz is not background music. You must concentrate in order to get the most out of it. You must absorb it.

— Horace Silver

Music requires a lot of attention and concentration.

— Rahat Fateh Ali Khan

I think one of the reasons I haven't been doing music is because I think that some of my performance, like, needs are being…

— Carrie Brownstein

I was introduced to jazz, and that's become a basic concern and passion of mine ever since.

— Nat Hentoff

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, what you're…

— Herb Alpert

The jazz records come out a lot. You find that with many musicians - we don't listen to our own music for relaxation.

— Simon Rattle

I listen to classical music very much. There's a lot of jazz that I don't enjoy listening to.

— Lee Konitz

I just try to do as good job with the material as I can and play some jazz as well, some improvised music, and…

— Mose Allison

I'm a musician, and I feel like musicians owe it to themselves and owe it to music to concern themselves with as much of…

— Chris Thile