Musicians like to converse. There's always interesting conversation with musicians - with classical musicians, with jazz musicians, musicians in general.
In my view a jazz musician is a great musician.
I got my love of jazz from my stepfather, who was a jazz musician.
I've been around jazz and jazz musicians most of my life.
I've met a lot of jazz musicians in my day, and they're all funny.
The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician.
Jazz is smooth and cool. Jazz is rage. Jazz flows like water. Jazz never seems to begin or end. Jazz isn't methodical, but jazz isn't messy either. Jazz is a conversation, a give and take. Jazz is the connection and communication between musicians. J...
It is rare that even a jazz musician finds an individual voice.
A jazz musician is a juggler who uses harmonies instead of oranges.
Well, being a jazz musician is not a rose garden!
For me, let's keep jazz as folk music. Let's not make jazz classical music. Let's keep it as street music, as people's everyday-life music. Let's see jazz musicians continue to use the materials, the tools, the spirit of the actual time that they're ...
Comedians talk to other comedians the way jazz musicians can talk to each other.
Coltrane would do what you'd get a Roland Pro Tools module to do but with a group of jazz musicians.
I found that jazz musicians, possibly more than their classical counterparts, wear long-standing friendships easily and gracefully.
The Ertegun Jazz Hall of Fame will provide a center where the lives and the artistry of the greatest jazz musicians will be celebrated, and where people will come to learn about jazz, something to which my brother devoted his life's work.
I would not describe myself as an avid jazz fan and I am not a jazz musician myself. However, that is not to say that jazz does not play a vital and important role in my life.
I really love jazz, but I will never be a jazz musician as much as I dream. But, I think that the jazz music I love is there in my music.
It is jazz music that called me to be a musician and I have always sang the songs that moved me the most.
At a certain point, I became a kind of musician that has tunnel vision about jazz. I only listened to jazz and classical music.
I can show you that I have played with just about every jazz musician, every African musician, every blues musician. It's not like I'm cashing in on a false concept. This is what I do.
Jazz is the last refuge of the untalented. Jazz musicians enjoy themselves more than anyone listening to them does.
