Jazz Quote by Rick Derringer Download Open image “I wanted to play some more grown-up music - jazz.” — Rick Derringer ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Jazz Music Play Wanted
I'm a jazz musician, and I really wanted to not miss an opportunity to have the full connection to jazz. — Kurt Elling Copy Share Image
My mother was a jazz fanatic and she wanted me to play the piano so I could play jazz tunes. I wish I had… — Etta James Copy Share Image
It's a great relationship when you can work with the person who you consider to be your soul mate. — Rick Derringer Copy Share Image
Brenda did some little vocal arrangements for us and she got to sing as well. So, we're happy to be able to work together… — Rick Derringer Copy Share Image
And what makes me happy now has changed as well... Its one thing to play in a bar or at a biker festival, and… — Rick Derringer Copy Share Image
I've always been a guy who's pretty supportive, its just my nature, so I came in to the situation with the attitude that I… — Rick Derringer Copy Share Image
So, after awhile, you can only get so much happiness from a guy who's drunk come up and tell you you're great. — Rick Derringer Copy Share
Johnny was great in the studio; he was there to make the music that he wanted to make. We lived right beside each other… — Rick Derringer Copy Share Image
I started The McCoys in 1962, so I'm approaching my 40th year in the entertainment business. — Rick Derringer Copy Share Image
Because I was successful over the years, I never had the opportunity to do the stuff I really wanted. — Rick Derringer Copy Share Image
My family is involved and my wife Brenda is a great, great writer. She helps me with the writing of everything and also sings… — Rick Derringer Copy Share Image
I took the rhythm place, which a lot of people didn't know how to do the way I could, and this was really the… — Rick Derringer Copy Share Image
In the nineties I was doing those Blues Bureau records, but over the past two years, I have really gone back to my Christian… — Rick Derringer Copy Share Image
We played all of the songs on the first Johnny Winter AND every day before we recorded them, so that when we got in… — Rick Derringer Copy Share Image
When you listen to someone improvise, the notes that are played are only half the story. — Hubert Laws Copy Share Image
Growing up in Iceland, it was very beautiful, very safe, but quite isolated. There was something about jazz music that had a way of… — Laufey Copy Share Image
I didn't plan on rock-n-roll. I wanted to learn jazz; I got to know some people doing rock-n-roll with jazz, and I thought I… — Robby Krieger Copy Share Image
Jazz is not something that can be defined through blunt instruments. It is much more poetic than that. — Pat Metheny Copy Share Image
When I was playing piano, it was like, 'I'm going to write a song using all the white keys.' My music director, who knew… — John Tesh Copy Share Image
Jazz is the music of the body. The breath comes through brass. It is the body's breath, and the strings' wails and moans are echoes of the body's music. It is the body's vibrations which ripple from the fingers. And the mystery of the withheld theme, known to jazz musicians alone, is like the mystery of our secret life. We… — Anais Nin Copy Share
Bruce Katz is a spectacular talent! He's a brilliant composer and arranger who uses uncommon and unique musical intelligence to redefine jazz and blues… — Larry Coryell Copy Share Image
I think we've all had enough of Coltrane saxophonists. There's a case of someone ruining a generation of saxophonists, as Louis Armstrong may have… — Paul Bley Copy Share Image
Where human eyes have never seen, where human beings have never been, I build a world of abstract dreams, and I wait for you. — Sun Ra Copy Share Image
It's bluesy, rocky jazz. I call it soul music, but it's not James Brown soul music. It comes from my soul. It comes from… — Tinsel Korey Copy Share Image
I listen to classical music very much. There's a lot of jazz that I don't enjoy listening to. — Lee Konitz Copy Share Image
