Famous Quotes & Sayings

Wayne Shorter

If all you have is music, then you don't have music

Juliana Hatfield

I wanted to be a writer since I was a little girl - long before I was a musician and a songwriter.

Kenneth Rexroth

I've been around jazz and jazz musicians most of my life.

K'naan

I wasn't making music consciously when I was younger. I was a musician, but that has its own stigmas. Anywhere on the planet, it's one of the more undervalued positions.

Miroslav Vitous

I am a Slavic musician and it is deeply inside of me.

Patrick Rothfuss

A poet is a musician who can't sing.

Marcus Miller

It's a great thing about being a musician; you don't stop until the day you die, you can improve. So it's a wonderful thing to do.

Joshua Homme

Not everyone deserves to be a musician, you get lucky enough to be one.

Karrine Steffans

I am not, and have no interest in being, a musician of any kind.

David Pierce

Kelsey plays the piano, and he's also a tremendous singer. I'm classically trained, and he's more of a jazz improvisatory pianist. So, we don't usually sit down and play together.

Wynton Marsalis

Jazz music creates so many phenomenal figures.

Charlie Parker

You've got to learn your instrument.

Eddie Palmieri

Same, just the same. Nine pieces ---- a trumpet, two trombones, reed, congas, drums, piano and vocalist. That's what a Latin jazz orchestra should be.

Jane Asher

I do find modern jazz quite tricky.

Norman Granz

Jazz was uplifted by what I did.

Fats Waller

So easy, when you know how.

Greg Ginn

I like a lot of electronica. I like older jazz rather than newer.

Sam Bush

Jean-Luc is my violin jazz hero, ... So to have him come out and play that tune with us at Telluride was just a freakout.