I learned from my uncle that jazz, like symphony music, was built to last.
I like the idea of an eclectic approach, incorporating jazz with other forms and other genres of music.
The way that I got involved with microtonal music was, frankly, through jazz.
Jazz, for me, is a closed circuit, like the term baroque in the world of classical music.
My music isn't anything but me. It has jazz in it, and rock'n'roll, and it has an urgency to it.
Jazz, rock and roll, movies and comics are the culture of America.
I would say that jazz is my own language.
I've always considered music stores to be the graveyards of musicians.
When I walked into the Christian section of a bookstore, the message was clear: Faith is something you do alone. Rick does not have much tolerance for people living alone. He’s like Bill Clinton in that he feels everyone’s pain. If Rick thinks so...
It comforts me to think that if we are created beings the thing that created us would have to be greater than us, so much greater, in fact, that we would not be able to understand it. It would have to be greater than the facts of our reality and so i...
To be a jazz freedom fighter is to attempt to galvanize and energize world-weary people into forms of organization with accountable leadership that promote critical exchange and broad reflection. The interplay of individuality and unity is not one of...
There are more guys than girls in jazz. Next-to-no lady trumpeters (oh, there are a few) but it doesn't matter because, for me, jazz trumpet is all about one guy Miles Davis. He made this famous album in 1959 called Kind of Blue which is kind of, alw...
That was when they noticed that every musician on the stage was wearing mourning black. That was when they shut up. And when the conductor raised his arms, it was not a symphony that filled the cavernous space. It was the Song of Eyllwe. Then Song of...
Gifted women musicians and composers rarely received their due.
Jazz and vodka, the fuel of resistance.
Jazz is the folk music of the machine age.
Film in the 20th century, it's the American art form, like jazz.
Jazz tickles your muscles, symphonies stretch your soul.
Diplomacy is like jazz: endless variations on a theme.
Jazz changes and all. But I don't know the names of what it is I'm doing.
Jazz is a very accurate, curiously accurate accompaniment to 20th century America.
