Me as an artist, I've ventured off into doing all types of music. I'll do a jazz album, you know what I mean.
If one takes all the styles in jazz harmonically from the earliest beginnings to the latest experiments, he still has a rather limited scope when compared to the rest of music in the world.
I think we as a band, as individuals, understand that all popular music stems from blues and jazz and even pop, but rock 'n' roll especially comes from blues.
I grew up with classical music blasting in my parents' living room and my older brother's practicing saxophone in his room listening to jazz... a beautiful chaos.
I have a very varied taste in music. Everything from rap to classical to Latino to Rat Pack to jazz.
My CD collection has a lot of world music - lots of Indian, African, Portuguese, Greek, Italian music. Because of my husband, a lot of jazz, too.
That's the thing about jazz: it's free flowing, it comes from your soul.
I listen to a mixture of old jazz, contemporary, pop, some world beat stuff and various odds and ends.
There's the tradition in jazz of having the Battle of the Bands, and you do not want to get your head cut when you're playing.
As a musician, I've accomplished what I hoped to accomplish.
I've never been a jam-band sort of musician.
I definitely think of myself as a musician first.
I'd really like to do a biopic of a musician.
The Doors were never that good as musicians.
I was a musician first before anything.
Both of my parents were musicians.
The music that I make, the younger musicians are referring to it as 'stretch' music.
Being a musician is a noble profession.
You're a musician: You play. That's what you do.
Musicians are artists, as silence is their canvas.
In L.A. everyone is an actor. In Texas, everyone's a musician.
