Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Claude Nobs

I was working in the local tourist office and I said to the manager, 'We should do something to make Montreux known in America. Let's do a jazz festival!

John Reynolds

I do a lot (of business) with local jazz players.

Robert Quine

After I exhausted the blues thing, I got into jazz.

Van Morrison

I just can't stand it [ jazz/rock]. It just doesn't sound right to me. It doesn't hit me...it doesn't get me...it just doesn't grab me.

Wynton Marsalis

Jazz music creates so many phenomenal figures.

Wynton Marsalis

Louis Armstrong is jazz. He represents what the music is all about.

Erik Larson

I like all kinds of music, though I tend to prefer jazz and classics.

John McLaughlin

Only in spontaneity can we be who we truly are.

Viola Spolin

Through spontaneity we are re-formed into ourselves.

Ritchie Blackmore

Everything I do is usually totally spontaneous.

Kathie Lee Gifford

They don't call me spontaneous and irreverant for nothing.

Jimmy Page

You can't overthink the music. Mood and intensity can't be manufactured. The blues isn't about structure; it's what you bring to it. The spontaneity of capturing a specific moment is what drives it.

David Rakoff

I am neither spontaneous nor ready for anything.

Arthur Frank Burns

Spontaneity has its time and its place.

Chuck Barris

Spontaneity is such an entertaining facet of show business.

Robert Barany

The investigations also proved that there were many cases of spontaneous deviation, i.e. cases where there had been no stimulation of the semi-circular canal apparatus.

Suzy Bogguss

A small venue is so much more intimate and loose. You can actually be more spontaneous, I feel.