#jazz

Ragtime has about the same amount of respect as comics. And in a way they're similar art forms. Ragtime is highly compositional, and the emotion in the music is built in, whereas in jazz a lot of that emotion comes from the way it's performed. ↗

— Chris Ware

#amount #art #art forms #built #comes

Orchestras are not used to playing the kind of stuff jazz musicians like to play. It requires a lot of rehearsal and recording time, so it's much easier to do on a synth or sampler. So, we came up with that idea. ↗

— Eberhard Weber

#easier #idea #jazz #jazz musicians #kind

If I take a less defensive tone, I'd admit that I couldn't write today a very jazzy, contemporary look at America as I did in 1979 in States of Desire. ↗

— Edmund White

#america #contemporary #defensive #desire #did

I was exposed to jazz early on. ↗

— Mark White

#exposed #i #jazz

The old jazz singers or old blues singers, you always just saw them kind of sitting down and singing. They weren't worried as much about their voice sounding perfect. They would make the song kind of fit their voice. ↗

— Lucinda Williams

#always #blues #down #fit #jazz

I'm always looking for ways to develop as an artist, especially as a jazz artist-to find different ways of testing my voice. ↗

— Cassandra Wilson

#artist #develop #different #different ways #especially

And I used to listen to a lot of jazz. ↗

— Debra Wilson

#jazz #listen #lot #used

The jazz I love is sweet and pure with raw elements, which is exactly what the good hip-hop is doing now. ↗

— Amy Winehouse

#elements #exactly #good #hip-hop #i

Tone on jazz guitars is a real tough issue. ↗

— Mark White

#issue #jazz #real #tone #tough

There are singers that I have enjoyed, from Nina Simone and Ray Charles onward. But the music that made music the number one thing for me as a youth was jazz. ↗

— Robert Wyatt

#enjoyed #i #jazz #made #me