Artist Quote by Gary Lucas Download Open image “I have to plead basic ignorance of most new jazz artists here.” — Gary Lucas ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Artist Ignorance Jazz
A lot of jazz artists think people should like what they're doing just because it's jazz. I don't buy that. — Pat Metheny Copy Share Image
I've never listened to jazz. It's just not something I ever paid attention to. — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
That's the thing: There are so many art songs in jazz. It's a much more rich experience for the singer than people think. — Kurt Elling Copy Share Image
I was introduced to jazz, and that's become a basic concern and passion of mine ever since. — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
I'm thrilled when I hear the greatest jazz musicians. They continue to search in ways other musicians do not. — Kurt Elling Copy Share Image
It's a mystery to me why everybody doesn't love jazz. I've never been able to figure that out. — Walter Becker Copy Share Image
I've listened to Jazz since I was born and always knew I'd be a Jazz singer! — Jane Monheit Copy Share Image
I think the people who are saying jazz has to sound a particular way, or, 'What you're doing isn't jazz,' are just scared because… — Robert Glasper Copy Share Image
Jazz is the last refuge of the untalented. Jazz musicians enjoy themselves more than anyone listening to them does. — Tony Wilson Copy Share Image
I don't think so, in so far as I always aspired to play the way I do now but just couldn't get the sounds… — Gary Lucas Copy Share Image
The ability and desire to transform the mundane materials at hand that we both bring into the collaboration well beyond the sum total of… — Gary Lucas Copy Share Image
I have no doubt that there are great people about though... the thing of it is, nothing to this day moves me like classical… — Gary Lucas Copy Share Image
While I shared many of the same emotions Bill describes, in no way did my experience ever degenerate into the grimness I find in… — Gary Lucas Copy Share Image
To make the bloody thing talk the way I do when I'm on a verbal roll, in my idioms and rhythms. — Gary Lucas Copy Share Image
Maybe its a case of one guitar feeling a certain way to the hands that makes one subsequently move differently over the strings, but… — Gary Lucas Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not only does… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image
I don't believe in competitions between artists. This is insane. Who has the authority to say someone is better? — Alan Arkin Copy Share Image
I am not the avant-garde. I am the artist who comes after the advancing guard. I am more concerned with continuity of ideas and… — Nathan Oliveira Copy Share Image
I am a horrible visual artist. I can't fix a car, sew, knit, cook, etc. Statistically, there is more I don't do than do. — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
Why did Erich von Stronheim leave Germany? Why did Hitchcock leave England? If you were a director you'd like to work in Hollywood too.… — Roman Polanski Copy Share Image
I have touched with a sense of art some people-they felt the love and the life. Can you offer me anything to compare to… — Mary Cassatt Copy Share Image
The teacher is of course an artist, but being an artist does not mean that he or she can make the profile, can shape… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
I am a very big fan of Brian Eno, of his work as an artist and making his music, and as a producer. In… — Rostam Batmanglij Copy Share Image
I like to make records sound good. I'm more like a reducer than a producer. If an artist cannot produce themselves, what's the point? — Branford Marsalis Copy Share Image
Being an artist is a totally godlike thing to do - and I have a god complex. — Laurie Anderson Copy Share Image
