Adaptability Quote by Doc Childre

The most important thing I look for in a musician is whether he knows how to listen.

— Duke Ellington

A musician knows hit material. It has to feel right. Everything has to feel in place. It fulfills you and it makes you feel…

— Michael Jackson

Every musician knows your studio is like - it's a bubble for you. It's a personal space. This is where I work, where I…

— Ahmad Balshe

It is curious how people go on believing that the musician knows less about what he is doing than those that judge him.

— Darius Milhaud

The first jazz musician was a trumpeter, Buddy Bolden, and the last will be a trumpeter, the archangel Gabriel.

— Wynton Marsalis

Jazz music and, more specifically, jazz musicians, are my artistic heroes. I want to be the Thelonious Monk of acting. He had no concern…

— Trevor St. John

We're [with Robbie Robertson ] jazz musicians. The context may be rock 'n' roll but it's still jazz. It's jazz and that means improvization...you…

— Van Morrison

Man, there's no boundary line to art!

— Charlie Parker

I was going to say is that I come from a rock background, but also I was super interested in jazz for a long…

— Jherek Bischoff

The Ertegun Jazz Hall of Fame will provide a center where the lives and the artistry of the greatest jazz musicians will be celebrated,…

— Ahmet Ertegun

I was being ridiculed for going to school... But, you see, I had looked hard at the other musicians and the whole show-business scene...…

— Donald Byrd

I grew up in a home filled with music and had an early appreciation of jazz since my dad was a jazz musician. Beginning…

— Molly Ringwald