I used to be a jazz snob, believe it or not. I sort of turned my nose up at anything more commercial..
The whole thing of being in music is not to control it but to be swept away by it..
Painting, I think it's like jazz..
There really is no such thing as art. There are only artists..
Playing the sax and then enjoying jazz music man. It's like I learned how to find words inside of the beat..
We're having a hard time understanding where jazz is going. What happened to jazz?.
I can turn on some jazz guitarist, and he won't do a thing for me, if he's not playing electrically. But Jeff Beck's great to listen to..
I am not a jazz singer. I wouldn't place myself on that footing. I wouldn't even enter that arena..
Scott Feiner is a soulful magnet for the fusion of Brazilian and jazz music..
Damn it, when I'm bombastic, I have my reasons. I want to be bombastic-take it or leave it..
For me, jazz will always be the soundtrack of the civil rights movement..
My first guitar, a Fender Jazz Master, I traded it in for a Les Paul Deluxe..
Jazz music by its very nature is just a conglomerate of a lot of different kinds of music..
I listen to and I play all kinds of music, and I'm interested in jazz and in bluegrass - I like it all - but Cuban music speaks to me in a certain wa….
Well, jazz is to me, a complete lifestyle. It's bigger than a word. It's a much bigger force than just something that you can say. It's something tha….
I resolved to play my trumpet like a sax..
I like all kinds of music, though I tend to prefer jazz and classics..
I used to do a lot of apologizing for what the State Department had done..
Jazz is a state of mind. There's no boundaries..
What about a blues in W, in the key of W..
The strange thing about Africa is how past, present and future come together in a kind of rough jazz, if you like..