#jaz

The thing to judge in any jazz artist is, does the man project and does he have ideas. ↗

— Miles Davis

#artist #does #ideas #jazz #judge

Jazz in itself is not struggling. That is, the music itself is not struggling... It's the attitude that's in trouble. My plays insist that we should not forget or toss away our history. ↗

— August Wilson

#away #forget #history #insist #itself

I like contemporary American literature and I like biographies and I like jazz and I like baseball and I like writers who write about the human condition and sci-fi is just something that I happened into. ↗

— Jonathan Frakes

#american #american literature #baseball #biographies #condition

I don't play the traditional Charlie Parker songs. But I do improvise and I do create with my instrument, and that to me is jazz. But there are people who use the word 'jazz' only in a traditional sense, and they would be offended by that, and that's fine. ↗

— Kenny G

#create #fine #i #i do #improvise

Just figure out what you think jazz is, and then if it fits into that category, it's jazz, and if it doesn't, it isn't. It's no big deal. ↗

— Kenny G

#big deal #category #deal #figure #fits

The whole rise of new adult contemporary music and smooth jazz was a nice surprise. ↗

— Kenny G

#contemporary #contemporary music #jazz #music #new

Well, Grover Washington was my main influence and when I went to college, I started listening to more of the jazz masters like Sonny Rollins, Cannonball Adderley, and John Coltrane. ↗

— Kenny G

#college #coltrane #i #influence #jazz

I like all kinds of music, though I tend to prefer jazz and classics. ↗

— Erik Larson

#i #jazz #kinds #like #music

I actually find a lot of parallels in jazz and cartooning. ↗

— Gary Larson

#cartooning #find #i #jazz #lot

My music is jazz. ↗

— Yusef Lateef

#music