Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chris Carter

I love jazz and funk, because it's hard. If it's not hard, it's not worth doing.

DJ Jazzy Jeff

And more than anything, I like the improvisation of jazz. That's the same thing with DJ-ing. There's so much improvisation you can do with cuttin' and scratchin' that's reminiscent of jazz music, because it's all about how you feel. You're capturing a vibe and just going with it.

Dexter Gordon

Jazz to me is a living music.

David Sanborn

You never get it figured out. You just keep playing.

Edgar Meyer

Most of the music I've become interested in is hybrid in its originsClassical music, of course, is unbelievably hybrid. Jazz is an obvious amalgam. Bluegrass comes from eighteenth-century Scottish and Irish folk music that made contact with the blues. By exploring music, you're exploring everything.

Edgar Winter

As far as I'm concerned, blues and jazz are the great American contributions to music.

Cassandra Wilson

Miles Davis was doing something inherently African, something that has to do with all forms of American music, not just jazz.

Bill Frisell

To me, jazz is a place where anything is possible.

Keith Jarrett

Jazz is there and gone. It happens. You have to be present for it. That simple.

Birdy

I love Adele and Lykke Li. I also listen to classical music as well.

Dennis Ritchie

I listen to mostly-classical music, but mostly by radio - I'm not an audiophile.

Alexandra Fuller

I listen mostly to classical music.

Gregory Maguire

I like classical music of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and I adore Bach above all.

Ian McLagan

What I do for migraines when I get them, I listen to classical music, and I turn it up really loud.

Mika

I was born out of classical music.

Itzhak Perlman

That makes classical music work, the ability to improvise.

Joanna Newsom

I am not doing something that it is experimental music in relation to classical music.

Satyajit Ray

I was interested in both Western and Indian classical music.