African american Quote by Kurt Vonnegut

What is my definition of jazz? "Safe sex of the highest order."

— Kurt Vonnegut

What I believe to be jazz is constructed and improvised music which is in the air right now. But I don't think that's most…

— John Lurie

I don't have a definition of Jazz. You're just supposed to know it when you hear it.

— Thelonious Monk

I don't know what anybody else in the world would want to thank America for, but man, it [jazz] works. What I like about…

— Kurt Vonnegut

I was a beginner again. I practiced hard and used to listen very closely to recordings of American jazz drummers such as Tony Williams…

— Jamie Muir

Western classical music had long known syncopation. But no one had felt compelled to snap his fingers to music before American jazz and musical…

— Heather Mac Donald

I did, I was in Europe a lot. I would say, mid 20s to late 30s. Less so in the last ten or twelve…

— Jon Gordon

When I was young, I never bought records because my brother Joseph played saxophone and had a record player. I loved listening to his…

— Miriam Makeba

We all listened to a lot of recorded music, especially American jazz, modern jazz, and that's where our studies were and our inspiration came…

— Evan Parker

As for the way we play, we are as much like the Beatles as any American Jazz group is like any other.

— Dave Clark

From the small clubs of the Harlem Renaissance where he began playing saxophone to world tours for the biggest of the big bands, Benny…

— William J. Clinton

I will never again play anything that does not have social significance. We American jazz musicians of African descent have proved beyond all doubt…

— Max Roach

I grew up watching American films, listening to American music, and it's a big contribution to the rest of the world. I mean, American…

— Wagner Moura

Childhood, all me influences were, say, between the time that I can remember, which would have been about three years old to the time…

— Bill Ward

Many an American jazz musician has been beguiled by the lush melodies and sumptuous rhythms of Brazilian music, but Peter Sprague has taken the…

— Andrew S. Gilbert