#jaz

I like mellow music. I like some jazz. But I'm not a big hard rock guy. ↗

— Gary Carter

#guy #hard #hard rock #i #jazz

Change is always happening. That's one of the wonderful things about jazz music. ↗

— Maynard Ferguson

#always #change #happening #jazz #jazz music

The day of the great jazz improviser who doesn't know how to read music is over. ↗

— Maynard Ferguson

#great #how #improviser #jazz #know

What makes my approach special is that I do different things. I do jazz, blues, country music and so forth. I do them all, like a good utility man. ↗

— Ray Charles

#blues #country #country music #different #different things

In a way, the history of jazz's development is a small mirror of classical music's development through the centuries. Now jazz is a living form of original music, while classical music has gotten to the end of its cycle in terms of exploring its form. ↗

— Mike Figgis

#classical #classical music #cycle #development #end

I never really liked poetry readings; I liked to read poetry by myself, but I liked singing, chanting my lyrics to this jazz group. ↗

— Leonard Cohen

#group #i #jazz #liked #lyrics

Bill Evans is a real serious jazz pianist who, in my book, crossed over boundaries in terms of color. He used the piano as his canvas. ↗

— Roberta Flack

#book #boundaries #canvas #color #crossed

It is jazz music that called me to be a musician and I have always sang the songs that moved me the most. ↗

— Harry Connick, Jr.

#called #i #jazz #jazz music #me

It is jazz music that called me to be a musician and I have always sang the songs that moved me the most. Singers, like Frank Sinatra and myself, we interpret the songs that we like. Not unlike a Shakespearean actor that goes back to the greatest words ever written, we go back to the greatest songs. ↗

— Harry Connick, Jr.

#always #back #called #ever #frank

I think the Flecktones are a mixture of acoustic and electronic music with a lot of roots in folk and bluegrass as well as funk and jazz. ↗

— Bela Fleck

#bluegrass #electronic #electronic music #folk #funk