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.

Van Morrison

That's what it is-it's jazz. It's just jazz. That's what the whole thing is about to me. It's about what's happening right now in this context. This conversation is jazz to a certain extent. It's improvisation. What appeals to me about music is the improvization. That's what I don't like about the media-they're not living it.

Robert Glasper

There is a modern take on certain things you can do that, to me, is still jazz.

Wynton Marsalis

Jazz music creates so many phenomenal figures.

Wynton Marsalis

Sustained intensity equals ecstacy.

Tyga

I could be going through something in my life that I might not want to talk about in my music because my music is the way that I escape some of those things.

Vikram Seth

Good music is good music, but it has to be good.

Young Jeezy

All my music is inspirational. You just gotta listen to the words and get what you can get out of it.

Yoko Ono

Music is like my security blanket.

Ennio Morricone

Music is an experience, not a science.

Mark Hoppus

Music is life. Music defines peoples' experience on this planet.

Kenny Rogers

Music is what I am, everything else is what I do.

Bruce Springsteen

Some of the greatest blues music is some of the darkest music you've ever heard.

Pitbull

It's all about music, because music is basically what's... been my avenue out of maybe being involved in things I shouldn't be.

Tommy Chong

I've always been into improvisation.

Nora Dunn

I love improvisation.

Igor Stravinsky

Composition is selective improvisation.