Artist Quote by Gary Lucas

His musical inspiration operates in a world uncluttered by conventional bar lines, conventional chord changes, and conventional ways of blowing or fingering a saxophone.…

— Gunther Schuller

I've worked with jazz artists, country artists, classical artists, pop artists. I never wanted there to be categories, because when I was a kid…

— Brian McKnight

For me, I listened to a lot of female jazz artists. And of course, the Motown and Philly sounds, all that stuff was very…

— Philip Bailey

Ignorance is your new best friend.

— Paramore

“Learning requires a large dose if humility to offset our built-in arrogance, which is usually supported by deafness and massive ignorance. New knowledge can…

— Robert Funk

If we lift ourselves out of spiritual ignorance, we can find ourselves as a new creature spawned in and from FREE WILL that we…

— Marv Stark

Europeans really provided many venues over there and hailed the jazz artists, and a lot of musicians went over there and stayed over there…

— Sonny Rollins

I grew up in the Great Depression, and the jazz artists and Dixieland musicians were at the core of our communications and enjoyment. They…

— Harry Belafonte

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

Many fail to realize this great recording industry was built by so-called jazz artists. And at the other end of the spectrum, a base…

— Ahmad Jamal

Many jazz artists go to L.A. seeking a more comfortable life and then they really stop playing.

— Sonny Rollins

I work with many jazz artists as Miles Davis, Laughlin, etc.. One of the things all these artists had in common is that they…

— George Duke