In college, I was able to be the vocalist for the jazz band at Arkansas State.
Ashley McBryde
CollegeJazzBandAbleState
I always felt of myself as a composer, performer, improviser. I've never called myself a jazz man. I make art.
Wadada Leo Smith
ArtMyselfManJazzNeverAlways
I think you have to have a jazz pedigree to be on jazz radio.
Rita Coolidge
ThinkYouJazzRadioI Think
My mother was a jazz fanatic and she wanted me to play the piano so I could play jazz tunes. I wish I had learned but I was too busy getting into trouble!
Etta James
MotherMeBusyWishPlayJazz
Jazz music creates so many phenomenal figures.
Wynton Marsalis
MusicJazzManyPhenomenalFigures
Jazz scares me. I've witnessed so many incredible singers and jazz musicians. Pop and soul music have always been the things that I felt like I could do.
Sam Smith
MusicSoulMeMusiciansJazzAlways
I wanted to be a jazz musician.
Ron Cephas Jones
JazzMusicianWantedJazz Musician
Well, I guess my unease with that is... I'm always a little uneasy with that phrase - smooth jazz, as opposed to what?
David Sanborn
JazzAlwaysLittleWellSmooth
Where I grew up, Bob Wills and his western swing was very popular. And western swing is not that far from jazz and blues.
Willie Nelson
BluesJazzSwingUpWhereFar
I listen to either romantic classical music, Brahms or Beethoven or something like Mozart, or I go all the way contemporary and listen to Metallica or Adele, Radiohead, jazz, whatever it is that is completely opposite.
Ramin Djawadi
MusicRomanticGoJazzWayListen
I couldn't get my album played over the so-called smooth jazz stations. Jazz stations would not play it. You don't always know who you're making that soul connection with.
Roy Ayers
SoulYouConnectionPlayKnowJazz
Most of what I listen to now is mainstream jazz from 1935 right up to and including early bebop and cool jazz.
Dave Van Ronk
CoolEarlyNowJazzListenRight
We listen to a lot of classical and a lot of jazz, and so you get some funky notes here and there. And we get a little experimental in some of the deeper tracks.
Synyster Gates
YouJazzListenLittleHereNotes
People sometimes say it takes a long time to become a jazz fan, but for me it took about five seconds.
Pat Metheny
TimePeopleMeLongSometimesJazz
The way I like to think about it is, even though I started music early - I started in classical music - it wasn't until I discovered jazz that I really fell in love with music and realized this was what I wanted to do for a living.
Miguel Zenon
LoveMusicThinkEarlyLivingJazz
I wouldn't really say I'm a jazz guy, which I'm not.
Creed Bratton
SayJazzGuyWhichReally
The Zombies were really unique - they had elements of jazz and classical music in their songs and songwriting. They had a very, very different sound compared to a lot of their contemporaries at the time.
Paul Weller
MusicTimeUniqueJazzSongwriting
Some people try to get very philosophical and cerebral about what they're trying to say with jazz. You don't need any prologues, you just play.
Oscar Peterson
PeopleTryingYouPlaySayJazz
I used to sing with my father's jazz band and then when I was ten years old a musician friend of his suggested that I try out for the first west coast production of Annie.
Molly Ringwald
FriendFatherJazzTryBandFirst
Everything we did, we did live - and then Bobby took it home and chopped it up and edited it. Which is pretty much what they did with every jazz record you've ever heard.
Charlie Hunter
HomeLiveYouJazzEverythingUp
In the last few years I've been listening to jazz more than anything else. I listen to a lot of world music and experimental here and there.
Serj Tankian
MusicListeningWorldJazzListen
One thing about playing the real jazz is that you can't count it.
Mahalia Jackson
YouJazzRealCountPlayingAbout
We mix a lot of genres - soul, pop, jazz - but we most agree on hip-hop.
Lukas Forchhammer
SoulJazzHip-HopAgreePopMost
I lie around the floor with my cats Billy and Jazz or watch DVDs with my best friends.
Cathy Freeman
BestCatsLieFriendsJazzFloor
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