Army Quote by Damien Chazelle

One interesting thing about jazz, or art in general, but jazz especially is such an individual art form in the sense that improvisation is…

— Damien Chazelle

In the mid-1930s, a lot of the Big Bands sounded the same.

— Henry Mancini

The sound of the drum drives out thought; for that very reason it is the most military of instruments.

— Joseph Joubert

And, well of course, Count Basie, and I think all of the black bands of the late thirties and early forties, bands with real…

— Buddy Rich

My father was a jazz listener, and I think, at least before I was 5, I was not so into that. Although there were…

— Wallace Shawn

I listened to Buddy Rich a lot, and also to guys like Clive Bunker, the original drummer from Jethro Tull. All these guys had…

— Marky Ramone

It's true I've always been attracted to the jazz band in an orchestral way, rather than a band way.

— Gerry Mulligan

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

Jazz came out of New Orleans, and that was the forerunner of everything. You mix jazz with European rhythms, and that's rock n' roll,…

— The Edge

I'm very influenced by jazz drummers. I always liked drummers like Roger Taylor, Keith Moon, Ian Paice, John Densmore. I just learned from playing…

— Steven Adler

After the war, once the bop revolution had taken hold, there were all kinds of young musicians, talented young musicians, who were ready for…

— Gunther Schuller

Without the jazz influence, the Black Sabbath drumming would be very different.

— Bill Ward