Area Quote by Clint Eastwood

The podcast 'A History of Jazz' began telling its story in February - 100 years after the recording of 'Livery Stable Blues' by the…

— David Hepworth

[I did impressions] of relatives because I heard so many different sounds. My dad was in the music business and of course my uncle…

— Billy Crystal

The only type of music I don't like is Dixieland jazz. It's just a little too happy and noisy for me. I like intervals…

— Rick Moranis

If it comes out sounding like Dixieland jazz or classical or punk or rock or even slightly metal, that's because that's where I'm going…

— Ben Harper

I was in every band class I could get in, like after school jazz band and marching band, and that's where I really learned…

— Chad Smith

I was in a rock band; I was my own folk singer; I was in a death metal band for a very short time;…

— Kiesza

Don't clap I'm not a jazz band for Christ's sake.

— Dylan Moran

When I was growing up, in L.A., I went to these schools, Fairfax High School, Bancroft Junior High School, and they had great music…

— Flea

The jazz band's chief stimulus, of course, was the rise of the negro 'blues' and their exploitation by the negro song-writer, W. C. Handy.

— Bix Beiderbecke

It was liberating to do comedy. It felt like playing in a jazz band.

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

The church we grew up playing at was not one of those churches known for its music, but it was just this all-around energy…

— Thundercat

I've played drums since I was 15. My sisters and I all played instruments. I kind of started with piano and then I actually…

— Miles Teller

In college, I was able to be the vocalist for the jazz band at Arkansas State.

— Ashley McBryde

[On John Tunnard:] One day a marvelous man in a highly elaborate tweed coat walked into the gallery. He looked a little like Groucho…

— Peggy Guggenheim

“March 6, 1961 I remembered a party in a house outside of Ann Arbor. There was a jazz band -- piano, bass, drums, and…

— Leonard Michaels