Dream Quote by Gyorgy Ligeti

By its very nature, no one person can ever be the center of Jazz.

— Ken Burns

I'd much prefer to hear somebody like Ed Thigpen [drummer with New York session group Stuff, and featured on innumerable hits] take a solo.…

— Van Morrison

I escaped to New York, and then L.A., but when I dream of home, I still dream of my old house in Holmdel.

— Lorene Scafaria

For me to be able fight in my home state of New York would be a dream come true.

— Chris Weidman

Being able to move to New York - that was a dream come true.

— Andrew W.K

My music isn't anything but me. It has jazz in it, and rock'n'roll, and it has an urgency to it.

— Neil Young

I just can't stand jazz/rock. I think it's the worst thing that's come down the river yet.

— Van Morrison

I just can't stand it [jazz/rock]. It just doesn't sound right to me. It doesn't hit me...it doesn't get me...it just doesn't grab me.

— Van Morrison

“Jazz presumes that it would be nice if the four of us--simpatico dudes that we are--while playing this complicated song together, might somehow be…

— Dave Hickey

What I wanted to do was music, until I was about 16. But it was jazz and rock, never classical music.

— Simon Helberg

To most people, jazz-fusion means this dreadful synthetic jazz-rock thing, this jazz-Muzak, which I detest. They also think of jazz as a specific form…

— Allan Holdsworth

I didn't like progressive jazz or anything. Rock was something I like to listen to.

— Floor Jansen

Rock was getting too complicated, too fused - everything was jazz-rock, country-rock, progressive-rock, this-rock and that-rock, and it was all so bland, so predictable.

— Marky Ramone

The thing that is making jazz healthy today is that people are coming out of other backgrounds - from rock, folk, from ethnic music.…

— Billy Taylor

My influences are jazz, blues, European classical music; they are rock music and pop music. So many kinds of music. World music from different…

— Rokia Traore