Disinformation is most effective in a very narrow context..
I modeled from the time I was 15 until I was 20..
Beneath every history, another history..
Nobody knows where jazz is going, because nobody has ever known where jazz was going. I mean, you couldn't possibly predict the Swing Era from the '2….
Miles Davis was doing something inherently African, something that has to do with all forms of American music, not just jazz..
I cringed when I heard myself described as a Jazz singer. I've always thought of myself as a Jazz vocalist..
I don't take myself too seriously..
I'm not part of the history, I am the history..
Love cannot be explained, yet it explains all..
I don't fear anything..
It's very demanding to make up your own music..
I'm very claustrophobic..
I started off with classical music, and I got into jazz when I was about 14 years old. And I've been playing jazz ever since..
Jazz is what I play for a living..
It's not jazz as we know jazz here in America..
"Jazz" to begin with, is a really bad word... all the true musicians that really play jazz, jazz is the worst word for it. Jazz is a process. Jazz is….
I don't act to live. I live to act..
In the year of 1902, when I was about seventeen years old, I happened to invade one of the sections [in New Orleans] where the birth of Jazz originat….
Now is the only thing that exists..
I do not claim any of the creation of the blues, although I have written many of them even before Mr. Handy had any blues published. I heard them whe….
You can't make jazz without using certain elements of Latin music..