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As long as there are musicians who have a passion for spontaneity, for creating something thats never been before, the art form of jazz will… — Charlie Haden
Gifted women musicians and composers rarely received their due. — James Cook
From the time I moved to San Francisco in 1967 to play with the Steve Miller Band, there was a lot of support in the… — Boz Scaggs
Deftones is always my main focus. I’ve been doing it the longest and it’s definitely a priority. I think of these as projects. It’s not… — Chino Moreno
What is called music today is all too often only a disguise for the monologue of power. However, and this is the supreme irony of… — Jacques Attali
'Swing' is an adjective or a verb, not a noun. All jazz musicians should swing. There is no such thing as a 'swing band' in… — Artie Shaw
Astronomers, like burglars and jazz musicians, operate best at night. — Miles Kington
I'm all in favor of getting grants for musicians. Or any other good brand of Scotch. — Pepper Adams
Now as jazz musicians we're saying for this society, you can free up your imagination. You can proceed in an area without much information and… — Paul Bley
The people in Japan know more about the history of jazz and the musicians than the people in the United States do. — Billy Higgins
They didn't dictate to me as to what kind of music that they wanted me to play or what tunes, what musicians that I was… — Horace Silver
Many jazz musicians affect a misunderstood-genius air when they play, which alienates the audience and breaks down the communications of the music. A musician's responsibility… — Gabor Szabo
Most customers, by the time the musicians reach the second set, are to some extent inebriated. They don't care what you play anyway. — Charles Mingus
You know, John Coltrane has been sort of a god to me. Seems like, in a way, he didn't get the inspiration out of other… — Wes Montgomery
The Blues scene now is international. In the '50s it was purely something that you would hear in black clubs, played by black musicians, especially… — Mick Taylor
The death of young musicians isn’t something to romanticize — Frances Bean Cobain
Metaphysicians are musicians without musical ability. — Rudolf Carnap
Certainly one of the more common experiences in the jazz field is discovering someone new. Improvising musicians are capable of being musical travelers, voyagers. We… — Gary Burton
It keeps me in touch with younger musicians who are constantly saying, 'Have you heard this new artist, or this new guitar player?' It keeps… — Gary Burton
Free improvisation, in addition to being a highly skilled musical craft, is open to use by almost anyone--beginners, children, and non-musicians… — Derek Bailey
I claimed identity as Jewish musicians for political reasons, because most of us were touring in Germany and, at this time, twelve years ago, there… — Marc Ribot
Actually John, Paul Rutherford, and Trevor Watts, and several other rather well known English jazz musicians had got their training by joining the Air Force,… — Evan Parker
I once painted a concert singer and on the chestnut frame I carved the opening bars of Mendelssohn's Rest in the Lord. It was ornamental… — Thomas Eakins
I absolutely adore and idolise women. All women. I think they are all amazing. The female musicians I've met have been far more inspiring than… — Robert Plant
I wanted to make the kind of records that I heard in the discos that I danced in at that time. Funky, electronic sounds, while… — Holly Johnson

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