Wynton Marsalis
Related There's no difference in a lot of people's minds between good musicians and popular musician... DWEEZIL ZAPPA I'm thrilled when I hear the greatest jazz musicians. They continue to search in ways other musi... KURT ELLING When it comes to musicians, I'm like the daddy of musicians here in Cuba. COMPAY SEGUNDO Working with Benny was important for me and for black musicians in general. LIONEL HAMPTON Some musicians play blues, others classical jazz or bluegrass. I like to play political roles becaus... JEFFREY WRIGHT GARY KEMP HARRY CONNICK, JR. QUINCY JONES FRANK SINATRA There are a lot of young musicians out there performing what they think is Latin jazz but instead is... EDDIE PALMIERI We were jazz musicians in the early days. But as soon as we brought in the DJ, the shows turned from... FELIX RIEBL I had no money, ... I'd pay the musicians and go home broke, to make sure they'd stay working, 'caus... CHARLES NEVILLE HENRY ROLLINS There is an apprenticeship system in jazz. You teach the young ones. So even if the musicians weren&... DAVE VAN RONK PETER CAPALDI I found that jazz musicians, possibly more than their classical counterparts, wear long-standing fri... ANDRE PREVIN PAT METHENY And it's a lot harder to hide with four musicians than it is with eight. VALERIE SIMPSON DAVID CASSIDY My brother had a house in Paris. To it came many Western classical musicians. These musicians all ma... RAVI SHANKAR I did a concert... in September with the Berlin Philharmonic... They're great musicians, and the... CECILIA BARTOLI TOMMY CHONG I see all the musicians in Blur with equal standing, really. BERNARD SUMNER Great musicians are great musicians, whether they're playing a trombone or an electric guitar or... CHRIS STAPLETON BILL DIXON KARLIE KLOSS It is my belief that there is a tendency among the so-called 'modern' or 'hip' jazz musicians to con... DON ELLIS DAVE BARRY Musicians are impossible. EVE BABITZ BRITNEY SPEARS Musicians are PHENOMENAL. STEPHANIE LAHART LORDE Musicians don't respect a lot of the stuff that is on TRL and a lot of musicians think that stuf... ADAM RICH If income was directly proportional to technical proficiency and education, classical and jazz music... ROBERT COLEMAN Comedians talk to other comedians the way jazz musicians can talk to each other. DAVID STEINBERG We're not spokespeople, we're musicians. ED O'BRIEN HORACE GEORGE CRABBE DUKE ELLINGTON FREDDIE MERCURY There are more bad musicians than there is bad music. ISAAC STERN It's my fault in many cases because I don't initiate the contact to talk with a lot of other musicia... FRANK MORGAN He's always excited about things that happen for me and for other musicians. I consider him a profes... BOB VILLA I did a concert... in September with the Berlin Philharmonic... They're great musicians, and there's... CECILIA BARTOLI LIAM GALLAGHER Musicians tend to limit themselves, HERBIE HANCOCK KEVIN BACON VINCE GILL We know now that it was sabotage. There were jealous musicians in the audience who had come to boo i... BENTON HESS Um, musicians are funnier you know, than actors on the whole. TIM CURRY He's always excited about things that happen for me and for other musicians. BOB VILLA If you could do that, it's great to do it. And a lot of great musicians have done it. A lot of music... SONNY ROLLINS The musicians are really on board, they're doing a great job together. There is some kind of a good ... LUCIEN BOUCHARD There were so many musicians but no one knew anyone else. They all played in Manhattan, but they had... BETH COHEN We're all songwriters and singers and musicians. GLENN HUDSON And the voice of harpers, and musicians, and of pipers, and trumpeters, shall be heard no more at al... BIBLE JIMMY PAGE CATHERINE HARDWICKE DIETRICH FISCHER-DIESKAU It's always been a place where musicians came on Friday to jam. To carry on a tradition that's been ... DICK FAZIO He's the one guy from his generation of popular musicians whose importance cannot be gauged numerica... DAVE MARSH I enjoy going into the studio and working with really good musicians and not telling them what I wan... DARDEN SMITH I think we've just started to find our own sound. And we've become more experienced songwriters and ... TOM FLETCHER Listen, I will now tell you the truth and there is no other. ISAAC STERN PETE TOWNSHEND JUSTIN BIEBER David is one of the most talented musicians ever, and he's never gotten his due. That cat is an amaz... JASON RICCI I really don't have a shopping list of musicians. You can never tell who is going to spark off that ... HUGH HOPPER We're all over the map as musicians. We're like Hungry Hippos: If each ball was a genre, we'd be all... MARC FRIEDMAN If you're going to bring the city back, you got to bring it back with the musicians. If it wasn't fo... JO DAVIS It's a very important hall. All the great musicians of the first half of the century have played the... PATTON RICE "Musicians are here to spread truth. We must start with the youth. KEVIN C. SCOTT TOMMY CHONG JOHN PERRY BARLOW Jazz stands for freedom. It's supposed to be the voice of freedom: Get out there and improvise, ... DAVE BRUBECK Our parents were musicians. CAROLINE CORR LOUIS ARMSTRONG I'm aiming that towards people, towards humanity, not even just musicians. Because this is about lif... HERBIE HANCOCK STURGILL SIMPSON Thompson was involved in the world of jazz. Jazz musicians were interested in his work, and he in th... CURTIS CARTER I was being ridiculed for going to school... But, you see, I had looked hard at the other musicians ... DONALD BYRD All musicians are subconsciously mathematicians. THELONIOUS MONK JAKE SHIMABUKURO I've always considered music stores to be the graveyards of musicians. GARY LARSON Jazz is the last refuge of the untalented. Jazz musicians enjoy themselves more than anyone listenin... TONY WILSON I was afraid the other musicians might want to present themselves too much, though I see in the cove... EBERHARD WEBER It was about finding creative, original musicians. Musicians who are strong composers. Flexible, emp... JOSHUA REDMAN BRANFORD MARSALIS BENNY CASSETTE BRYAN WHITE SAM SMITH It's my fault in many cases because I don't initiate the contact to talk with a lot of other... FRANK MORGAN GEORGE HARRISON Organizational improvisation ... Research on jazz musicians shows that people don't just pull stuff ... KATHLEEN TIERNEY DOC SEVERINSEN Jazz is a music that translates the moment into a sense of inspiration for not only the musicians bu... HERBIE HANCOCK I think the jazz musicians have had less problems than people who feel jazz should be just one thing... ETHAN IVERSON Most of the music we will be performing is by major black jazz musicians and composers. GLENN MARTIN DAVID EDWARDS I don't like that, because there are a lot of people whose works I admire as actors or actresses... LAURA BUSH
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I've always thought that actors wanted to be pop musicians and pop musicians wanted to be actors... 
We have been working with Habitat for Humanity and we have built eighty homes, 80% of which are bein... 
They said, 'Why don't you make a hit record?' I said, 'It's not a big deal.' Because jazz musicians,... 
I didn't know much about Mabel because I was glued to the jazz musicians, 
Musicians should not play music. Music should play musicians. 
Why can't jazz musicians just leave a melody alone? 
For me, let's keep jazz as folk music. Let's not make jazz classical music. Let's keep i... 
There's nothing wrong with becoming a role model, nothing wrong with inspiring people to become ... 
I've met a lot of jazz musicians in my day, and they're all funny. 
If musicians don't do any music, then there isn't any music. Musicians are very tricky and can be qu... 
MTV in general is involved with so many artists - musicians, actors, people in the fashion industry,... 
My son does not appreciate classical musicians such as the Stones; he is more into bands with names ... 
Musicians duet better 
With pop music and pop musicians, you know everything about everyone all the time, particularly thei... 
The musician who always plays on the same string is laughed at 
Feed the musician, and he's out of tune 
The wise musicians are those who play what they can master 
I'm just a musical prostitute, my dear. 
We should be judged as musicians, and bloody fine ones at that. 
I'm not as enamored with actors as I am with musicians, especially like these guys, ... These are so... 
Musicians know that this area has been an amazing hotbed for singers and players. 
I think it was that we were really seasoned musicians. We had serious roots that spanned different c... 
That gets you access to double to pool of actors, funding, musicians, whatever you need, 
I came together with younger musicians and tried to pass on my own experiences. In the process, I al... 
Life's a bitch and so am I. 
i will never say never i will fight i will fight till forever make it right whenever you knock me do... 
Cheech and I used to call ourselves musicians; we never called ourselves comedians. We were musician... 
Royalties are not how most writers or musicians make their living. Musicians by and large make a liv... 
Musicians don't retire; they stop when there's no more music in them. 
Both my grandfathers and my mother's brother were musicians. 
world class and incredible musicians. 
The lion's share of what I hear right now are people who, intentional or accidental, have avoide... 
For me, great jazz records really feel like everyone in the room is playing together in a zone - and... 
Both of my parents were musicians. 
Jazz scares me. I've witnessed so many incredible singers and jazz musicians. Pop and soul music... 
Having played with other musicians, I don't even think the Beatles were that good 
Personally, I think young musicians need to learn to play more than one style. Jazz can only enhance... 
I played with so many musicians and some of the musicians would have something I want. I steal a lot... 
There's always the cliche of the choir shouting and clapping. OK, you have to do that, but there... 
it ain't as hard as picking cotton 
Everything comes out in blues music: joy, pain, struggle. Blues is affirmation with absolute eleganc... 
The biggest problem with American music right now, is that kids don't listen. They come by it ho... 
Coltrane came to New Orleans one day and he was talking about the jazz scene. And Coltrane mentions ...