Quotes of: Frank-sinatra Keyword

My parents encouraged us to commit to things, so if we wanted to learn an instrument, it was all the grades and all the theory.

Laura Mvula

Limitlessness is important for me; I want to be able to use every opportunity to push me forward onto the next thing.

Laura Mvula

As far as I'm concerned, the essentials of jazz are: melodic improvisation, melodic invention, swing, and instrumental personality.

Mose Allison

At this point, I don't listen to other people too much. I'm not really that affected by anyone.

Mose Allison

I finally decided if I was going to make a living, I was gonna have to come to New York.

Mose Allison

I'm always storing away phrases and ideas and things that I think might turn into songs.

Mose Allison

Thelonious Sphere Monk: there's not a more perfect name to fit his compositions than that name.

Matthew Shipp

I am more of a solo bass player and he needed somebody who would keep the role.

Miroslav Vitous

I didn't know what the hell Charlie Parker was playing... I just liked the way he played.

Charlie Watts

I certainly hope my music is in no way, shape or form influenced by anything that would be known as a jam band. If it is, then I'm going to do something else.

Charlie Hunter

The blues comes right back to a person's feelings, to his daily activities in life. But rich people don't know nothing about the blues, please believe me.

Jimmy Rushing

I like to read, and I like dance. I don't dance, but I like to see other people dance.

Esperanza Spalding

I honestly can't characterize my style in words. It seems that whatever comes to me naturally, I play.

Coleman Hawkins

I made the tenor sax - there's nobody plays like me and I don't play like anybody else.

Coleman Hawkins

I kinda always wanted to be a tenor player, but I'm a small guy, and tenor was just too big.

David Sanborn

Jazz of the sort we play is a happy, extroverted music. You don't have to think about it too much.

Chris Barber

All the music that I've made in the past I've believed in. I think some of it has been more commercially successful than others, but it wasn't premeditated.

David Sanborn

I didn't try to think what my audience wanted and then make the music accordingly. I made the music and hoped that as many people liked it as possible.

David Sanborn

I try to do things that keep me interested. And play music that moves me. I like to move around and play in a lot of different ways.

David Sanborn

I never think my music isn't easy until I got to teach it to other people.

Esperanza Spalding

In other words, the celebrity gets out of hand, and if you're not careful, you will forget what you are about - and that is you are about making music that people want to hear.

Johnny Mathis