I’m always thinking about creating. My future starts when I wake up in the morning and see the light.

I think my knowledge of music theory is rooted in jazz theory, and a lot of the writers of standards – Rodgers and Hart, and Gershwin.

If I am playing any music at all it is jazz music.

Call me crazy, but there is something terribly wrong with this city.

An inch of gold can’t buy an inch of time

[Does Piazza feel jazz is an acquired taste?] If by ‘acquired taste’ you mean that jazz resists immediate enjoyment, I’m not sure I agree, … But an active understanding of the ways in which the...

Well I went to New Orleans to cover the jazz festival for Trio, it’s this new arts channel, it’s really great.

By and large, jazz has always been like the kind of a man you wouldn’t want your daughter to associate with.

The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician.

The sounds of New Orleans were jazz, people laughing, people eating a good meal, … And now the sounds of New Orleans are helicopters and army vehicles. This is almost surreal.

In blues, classical and jazz, you get more revered with age.

If I’m not a jazz player all the time, I’ve at least been cued in to what I do by jazz.

Yeah, I’ve always thought it had sort of a jazz improvisation aspect to it,

My years of ballet and jazz dance lessons didn’t make me any more graceful – they just helped keep me from bumping into the furniture on stage.

In elementary school, in my lunchbox, I used to pack a saxophone. I could have been a chef, a culinary artist, and all that jazz.

There is a stillness between us, a period of restlessness that ties my stomachin a hangman’s noose. It is this same lack in noise that lives, there! in thedarkness of the grave, how it frightens...

I’ve been invited to do a trio with a fantastic jazz guitarist and a harmonica player.

Jazz can be a blank canvas full of possibilities.

My mother is a singer, still performs today; she’s a jazz singer.

They (Jazz players) are not familiar with how to deal with the pressure, and so that’s how they’ve always done it ? overpower people, and get shots off. But you have to make them. Because...

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Jazz was my first love.

It is also jazz mass. It is in jazz idiom. There are definitely some Latin-based pieces.

In my view a jazz musician is a great musician.

I’m not a big jazz fan.

Some so-called ‘jazz purists’ are critical of me using strings instead of just a trio, and I say to that, ‘HA! Who cares?’

History doesn’t start with a tall buildingand a card with your name written on it, but jokes do. I think someone is takingus for suckers and is playing a mean game.

My music isn’t anything but me. It has jazz in it, and rock’n’roll, and it has an urgency to it.

Jazz is the art of thinking out loud.

My style is a little quirky. I can’t play as fast as most professional jazz players.

As far as I’m concerned, the essentials of jazz are: melodic improvisation, melodic invention, swing, and instrumental personality.

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I wanna show that gospel, country, blues, rhythm and blues, jazz, rock ‘n’ roll are all just really one thing. Those are the American music and that is the American culture.

In his book Real Presences, George Steiner asks us to “imagine a society in which all talk about the arts, music and literature is prohibited.” In such a society there would be no more essays...

Those who have not lived in New Orleans have missed an incredible, glorious, vital city–a place with an energy unlike anywhere else in the world, a majority-African American city where resistance to white supremacy has...

He was listening to a lot of jazz and a lot of horn players. He was just real open with his playing and went places musically that other musicians weren’t going. He would break out...

Poetry, like jazz, is one of those dazzling diamonds of creative industry that help human beings make sense out of the comedies and tragedies that contextualize our lives.

To be a jazz freedom fighter is to attempt to galvanize and energize world-weary people into forms of organization with accountable leadership that promote critical exchange and broad reflection. The interplay of individuality and unity...

—if the spirit tries to hide, its temple far away… acopper for those they ask, a diamond for those who stay.

Jazz was born in New Orleans, and it’s a tribute to Woody’s love of jazz that he will perform this benefit.

Jazz vision is a wordless conversation between musical notes and visual expressions.

I do find modern jazz quite tricky.

My main influences have always been the classic jazz players who sang, like Louis Armstrong and Nat King Cole and Jack Teagarden.

Risk is at the heart of jazz. Every note we play is a risk.

I do after-school ballet and also hip-hop and jazz.

There are editing procedures for talks just as there are editing procedures in jazz improvisation.

Well, I think writing is basically about time and rhythm. Like with jazz. You have your basic melody and then you just riff off of it. And the riffs are about timing.

The law don’t like jazz clubs. No one wants anything to do with that kind of trouble.

There are only two things: love, all sorts of love, with pretty girls, and the music of New Orleans or Duke Ellington. Everything else ought to go, because everything else is ugly.

Jazz presumes that it would be nice if the four of us–simpatico dudes that we are–while playing this complicated song together, might somehow be free and autonomous as well. Tragically, this never quite works out....