#jaz

I listened to the radio, so I was influenced by everyone from Michael Jackson to Milli Vanilli. But thankfully my dad had a collection of Cat Stevens albums while my mom was listening to jazz. ↗

— Jason Mraz

#cat #cat stevens #collection #dad #everyone

I was curious and hungry at a young age, and jazz was such a mystery to me, an ocean where you can express yourself in the moment. It represented freedom, it represented wearing wings and going somewhere with music. ↗

— Paula Cole

#curious #express #express yourself #freedom #going

I recorded my first jazz record in the '70s. ↗

— Rita Coolidge

#i #jazz #jazz record #record #recorded

The strange thing about Africa is how past, present and future come together in a kind of rough jazz, if you like. ↗

— Ben Okri

#africa #come #future #how #jazz

Actually John, Paul Rutherford, and Trevor Watts, and several other rather well known English jazz musicians had got their training by joining the Air Force, which was a pretty standard way for people to get some kind of musical education in those days. ↗

— Evan Parker

#air #air force #days #education #english

In my view a jazz musician is a great musician. ↗

— Michael Parkinson

#jazz #jazz musician #musician #view

I love many kinds of music: world music, jazz, classical, pop. ↗

— Anita Diament

#i #i love #jazz #kinds #love

Jazz is a music of great achievements but speed and chops serve a different function in jazz. ↗

— Marc Ribot

#chops #different #function #great #great achievements

If he's a true symphony artist, he knows better than that because he knows that the only truly creative musician is the jazz musician. ↗

— Buddy Rich

#because #better #creative #jazz #jazz musician

Jazz is a very democratic musical form. It comes out of a communal experience. We take our respective instruments and collectively create a thing of beauty. ↗

— Max Roach

#collectively #comes #communal #create #democratic