Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chris Carter

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

David Sanborn

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

Cassandra Wilson

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

Charlie Parker

You've got to learn your instrument.

Charles Mingus

Jazz is the language of the emotions.

Charles Mingus

Everything I do is Mingus.

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.

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.

Alexandra Fuller

I listen mostly to classical music.

Dennis Ritchie

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

Birdy

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

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.

Questlove

Classical music requires an immense amount of concentration, and I don't know if I would've been that committed to that particular life.

Joanna Newsom

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

Itzhak Perlman

That makes classical music work, the ability to improvise.