When you are so strongly drawn to music, you can't not be a musician.
Jazz music by its very nature is just a conglomerate of a lot of different kinds of music.
The numerous ecstatic traditions - including free jazz and funk - have all been great inspirations.
I love my jazz hands!
[David] Bowie went on to make best-selling music - funk, dance music, electronic music, while also being influenced by cabaret and jazz.
[David] Bowie's last album "Blackstar" featured him backed by a jazz quartet.
I listen to instrumental jazz and bluegrass, but aside from my AM workout, I have no rituals.
For me, the main thing is spontaneity & taking chances.
I like to go hear jazz late-night up in Harlem.
So I went into jazz and performed in jazz clubs all over the country.
I wouldn't really say I'm a jazz guy, which I'm not.
I like rock music. I like jazz better, though.
I don't believe music can be free unless it has something to be free from.
Everything-everything-was communicated through the sound of the music. There were no other signals of any kind ever-no count-offs, head nods, spoken instructions...nothing.
I'm really not this jazz traditionalist guy you've been making me out to be all of these years.
I love jazz and funk, because it's hard. If it's not hard, it's not worth doing.
The type of band that I have now, the type of music that we're playing you either like it or you dislike it. If you dislike it, you probably don't know why. By the same token, you can't even really say why you like it.
Personally, I can't see how anyone can produce any beautiful music out of being angry.
Jazz was formerly a crude term for indulging in an action which in polite society is referred to, if at all, only with such vague Latin terms as intercourse and cohabitation.
That's the exact concept behind the music: to take that kind of, I guess whatever you want to call it, jazz sensibility - but not have it be about solos.
I'm not a one-stop music shop with jazz improv in aisle 3 and country and western in aisle 4. I have a fairly focused and established kind of melody and approach, so people know what they're getting into when they go into business with me.
You know I want to sing for people, I want to jazz people up I want to make new music that they've never heard.
We went to see all the shows. American musical theater and jazz were very big.
My D'Angelico is a jazz archtop guitar. That guitar was made for Glenn Miller's guitar player in 1939. It's a '39 D'Angelico New Yorker.
I don't want to do free jazz! Because free jazz - which is the musical equivalent of free marketeering - isn't actually free at all. It's just constrained by what your muscles can do.
