Pastoral Resources

You need better technique than I have to play jazz, but what you have to do is the same thing, isn't it?

Orchestras are not used to playing the kind of stuff jazz musicians like to play. It requires a lot of rehearsal and recording time, so it's much easier to do on a synth or sampler. So, we came up with that idea.

I was exposed to jazz early on.

Tone on jazz guitars is a real tough issue.

Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.

Jazz is the folk music of the machine age.

Jazz tickles your muscles, symphonies stretch your soul.

The old jazz singers or old blues singers, you always just saw them kind of sitting down and singing. They weren't worried as much about their voice sounding perfect. They would make the song kind of fit their voice.

Jazz is the last refuge of the untalented. Jazz musicians enjoy themselves more than anyone listening to them does.

Jazz in itself is not struggling. That is, the music itself is not struggling... It's the attitude that's in trouble. My plays insist that we should not forget or toss away our history.

Miles Davis was doing something inherently African, something that has to do with all forms of American music, not just jazz.

I've often cringed when I heard myself described as a jazz singer. I've always thought of myself as a jazz vocalist.

I'm always looking for ways to develop as an artist, especially as a jazz artist-to find different ways of testing my voice.

And I used to listen to a lot of jazz.

As far as I'm concerned, blues and jazz are the great American contributions to music.

There are singers that I have enjoyed, from Nina Simone and Ray Charles onward. But the music that made music the number one thing for me as a youth was jazz.

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

I missed jazz, kind of. And by the time I came to it in life, it was too intimidating to enjoy thoroughly.

I'm not a big jazz fan.