Music is what you notice when it's no longer in your presence.
He's no Bill Clinton!
I love jazz music and sad music.
Risk is at the heart of jazz. Every note we play is a risk.
I wouldn't really say I'm a jazz guy, which I'm not.
People ask me: ‘What is punk? How do you define punk?' Here's how I define punk: It's a free space. It could be called jazz. It could be called hip-hop. It could be called blues, or rock, or beat. It could be called techno. It's just a new idea. For me, it was punk rock. That was my entrance to this idea of the new ideas being able to be presented in an environment that wasn't being dictated by a profit motive.
I'm a person of change and I must be honest to my artistry and my creativity. That's part of the word 'jazz'. . . it's an adventure.
Trumpet players are just belligerant, and cocky, and you know, just hard-headed.
That's kind of like how jazz is sometimes. You're out there predicting the future, and no one believes you.
Jazz is rhythm and meaning.
Most of the international acceptance of jazz education can be traced to the University of North Texas, Denton, Texas, and the wonderful program they inaugurated.
I had heard blues and jazz all my life but I was never aware that it was associated with nightclubs and drinking.
Diplomacy is like jazz: endless variations on a theme.
I'm interested in music, not in my image. If someone plays something fantastic, that I could never have thought of, it makes me happy to know it exists.
Justin Di Cioccio led a jazz program at Music and Art, but there was no jazz in Performing Arts. After they joined, it became Laguardia School of Arts.
I was taking chemical engineering. But I went into the army after that. When I came out of the army, I was a different person. I met a lot of good jazz players in the army.
Jazz is so incestuous that it's starting to kill itself.
Everything I do is Mingus.
Charlie Parker was the greatest individual musician that ever lived. Every instrument in the band tried to copy Charlie Parker, and in the history of jazz there had never been one man who influenced all the instruments.
Jazz was born out of the whiskey bottle, was raised on marijiana, and will expire on cocaine.