#jazz

You know, Equal Interest played at the Bell Atlantic Jazz Festival Awards and not one musician from that category was even thought of. Even thought of! The idea, that here's this vital energy, and that element doesn't even know it exists! ↗

— Joseph Jarman

#awards #bell #category #element #energy

If you play jazz, then you play with your fingers. If you're playing rock, you use a pick. There's really no rhyme or reason to that other than that's just the way it has been. ↗

— Kevin Eubanks

#fingers #jazz #just #other #pick

I've learnt new scales through playing different types of music, like Indian raga scales, gipsy scales and harmonically-based jazz scales. ↗

— Nigel Kennedy

#different types #i #indian #jazz #learnt

As long as there are people trying to play music in a sincere way, there will be some jazz. ↗

— Lee Konitz

#long #music #people #play #play music

Bernstein grew up in my building in New York. He's a very, very fine player. When he was a kid, he came by to find out what was going on in the world of jazz. ↗

— Lee Konitz

#building #came #find #fine #going

Most jazz players work out their solos, at least to the extent that they have a very specific vocabulary. ↗

— Lee Konitz

#jazz #jazz players #least #most #out

I was considered as a jazz man rather than as a blues player. There were no blues players-you played one sort of jazz of another sort of jazz. ↗

— Alexis Korner

#blues #considered #i #jazz #man

My first guitar, a Fender Jazz Master, I traded it in for a Les Paul Deluxe. ↗

— Lenny Kravitz

#fender #first #guitar #i #jazz

I didn't plan on rock-n-roll. I wanted to learn jazz; I got to know some people doing rock-n-roll with jazz, and I thought I could make some money playing music. ↗

— Robby Krieger

#doing #got #i #jazz #know

Well, being a jazz musician is not a rose garden! ↗

— Toots Thielemans

#garden #jazz #jazz musician #musician #rose