Quotes of: Frank-sinatra Keyword

My songs are very personal, which means they are fantastically therapeutic to write, but performing them night after night is emotionally draining.

Laura Mvula

I can't judge my own stuff. That's for others. But those are the three things that I admire.

Mose Allison

I actually met Chick Corea in New York, where I was staying with a bass player friend.

Miroslav Vitous

I took it very seriously and got very far with it. I was pretty much on a high level when I arrived.

Miroslav Vitous

Miles Davis had me play and he hired me the following week and after that, everything broke wide open.

Miroslav Vitous

You need better technique than I have to play jazz, but what you have to do is the same thing, isn't it?

Charlie Watts

I never had lessons. Used to try to play to records, which I hated doing. Still can't play to them.

Charlie Watts

I had the fortunate experience to play with people from different schools of music. Sam Rivers is from the fundamentalist school of music.

Kevin Eubanks

They use all of the music that I did in the '50s, '60s and the '70s behind people like Tupac and LL Cool J. I'm into all that stuff.

Donald Byrd

I hate leaving home. I love what I do, but I'd love to go home every night.

Charlie Watts

I have no doubt that there are great people about though... the thing of it is, nothing to this day moves me like classical music (Debussy, Vaughn Williams).

Gary Lucas

Everyone goes through the ups and downs of living - fretting about the future, worrying about what happened. Music teaches us how to be in the moment.

David Sanborn

Life is too full of distractions nowadays. When I was a kid we had a little Emerson radio and that was it. We were more dedicated. We didn't have a choice.

Stan Getz

You can grow up with literally nothing and you don't suffer if you know you're loved and valued.

Esperanza Spalding

There is an assumption that if you're young and pretty, you will get all these opportunities that are way beyond your musical foundation.

Esperanza Spalding

They credited us with the birth of that sort of heavy metal thing. Well, if that's the case, there should be an immediate abortion.

Ginger Baker

People are afraid of things they don't understand. They don't know how to relate. It threatens their security, their existence, their career, image.

Bill Laswell

Some people think I'm a rock 'n' roll musician and some think I'm a jazz musician but, for me, there is no difference.

Georgie Fame

I think that people should learn about that. In most music, there's one way that you do something, and that's the only way. In jazz, it's a lot different.

Billy Higgins

Engineering producers who don't play and have technology as a background may be the reason why there's a lot of cold non-musical music, for lack of a better description.

Bill Laswell

I can take any series of numbers and turn it into music, from Bach to bebop, Herbie Hancock to hip-hop.

Donald Byrd