Jazz Quote by Charles Mingus

Sometimes you think "Okay, well I'm going to play my horn, and I'm going to study Charlie "Bird" Parker solos or [John Coltrain] or…

— Jon Gordon

In fact, I heard Bird first, and had got well into listening to him. You know, it's the kind of accidental thing that awareness…

— Gerry Mulligan

This music that was supposed to only come from tapes like in any restaurant. Something would happened. One bird will start to do a…

— John Hench

I just got to hear every note. After I left Birdland, I started working at the Jazz Gallery. In the end, I still couldn't…

— Carla Bley

Ornette Coleman is doing the only really new thing in jazz since the innovations in the mid-forties of Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, and those…

— John Lewis

“The birds they sang at the break of day. Start again!! I heard them say”

— Leonard Cohen

The ensemble playing is as clean as a whistle. The band plays in tune and with dynamics. Also, there is some fine arranging and…

— Horace Silver

“Somewhere a bird sang, its chant hanging plaintive and melancholy in the still air...I think it's a sort of lark or something. Our tradition…

— Jane Johnson

I can't even listen to Swans anymore. It doesn't do it for me at all, but I absolutely adore the early records and, on…

— Justin Broadrick

Percy France told me, similarly, he and Bird used to hang out. They were good buddies. And he said, "Man, we'd just walk through…

— Jon Gordon

We started playing 'Free Bird' in clubs, and initially, it was just a slow ballad.

— Gary Rossington

“Mockingbirds are the true artists of the bird kingdom. Which is to say, although they're born with a song of their own, an innate…

— Tom Robbins