“My father was a jazz tenor sax player. He played in a lot of big bands. So I had that sound around me all the time. The first record that really caught my ear was Clifford Brown's 'Brownie Eyes.' I grew up listening to John Coltrane and Illinois Jacquet. This is where I come from... I love improvisational music.” FirstsBigsEyeFatherSoundRecordsPlayerListeningGrewBandGrew UpEarsJazzCaughtBrownIllinoisTenorsColtraneBrownies Author:Meshell Ndegeocello
“I want to make hip-hop that can use guitars and soul and jazz and just fuse it all together. And I want to make this whole new sound that's going to shock the world. Unfortunately, the masses didn't receive it.” WorldWantSoulWholeUseTogetherSoundMassJazzGuitarHip HopHipsShockHopsFuse Author:Will Ferrell
“I love the sounds of Latin jazz, R&B, hip-hop, alternative, all that stuff. I'm a radio kid.” KidsStuffSoundJazzHip HopRadioHipsAlternativesHopsLatin Author:Mario Vazquez
“I've been informed by both sides, jazz, western music, Asian music, African music, all sides, because I've been interested in the sound of the universe, and that sound is without limit.” UniverseSoundSidesLimitsJazzWesternBoth SidesAsianAfrican MusicWestern Music Author:Joseph Jarman
“I don't care much about music. What I like is sounds.” CareSoundMusicCareersJazzDon't CareI Don't CareMusic Love Author:Dizzy Gillespie
“I took the frets out of my bass after I was getting into jazz a lot and I wanted to have that upright sound.” WantedSoundJazzBass Author:Jaco Pastorius
“If music is sound & came from silence, then silence is potentially greater than sound.” IfsSoundSilenceGreaterMusic IsJazzSilence Is Author:Keith Jarrett
“It's great to know that our old stuff still sounds good to our fans, just as it's wonderful to think that we've turned a few people on to jazz over the years.” PeopleThinkingKnowsYearsStillsStuffSoundWonderfulFansJazzOld Stuff Author:Donald Fagen
“For the moment, the jazz is playing; there is no melody, just notes, a myriad tiny tremors. The notes know no rest, an inflexibleorder gives birth to them then destroys them, without ever leaving them the chance to recuperate and exist for themselves.... I would like to hole them back, but I know that, if I succeeded in stooping one, there would only remain in may hand a corrupt and languishing sound. I must accept their death; I must even want that death: I know of few more bitter or intense impressions.” IfsKnowsWantGivingMayMomentsHandsSoundChanceAcceptingMusicBirthMusicianJazzNotesLeavingTinyHolesImpressionIntenseBitterMelody Author:Jean-Paul Sartre
“I don't like heroin, unless you're a jazz musician and then you have to be on it because jazz is the sound of heroin.” SoundMusicianJazzJazz MusicHeroinJazz Musician Author:John Waters