Life is a lot like jazz... it's best when you improvise.
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Life is a lot like jazz.. it's best when you improvise.
GEORGE GERSHWIN The Gershwin legacy is extraordinary because George Gershwin died in 1937, but his music is as fresh...
MICHAEL FEINSTEIN A jazz musician can improvise based on his knowledge of music. He understands how things go together...
CHARLIE TROTTER Liquid architecture. It's like jazz - you improvise, you work together, you play off each other,...
FRANK GEHRY My grandma was a church organist for 40 years, and she got me into jazz music and great songwriters,...
ZACH ANNER As far as songwriters, I've always been a fan of Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, and George Gershwin...
MEL BROOKS As a composer, Dylan now fits comfortably alongside George Gershwin or Irving Berlin, though he grum...
DOUGLAS BRINKLEY I think my knowledge of music theory is rooted in jazz theory, and a lot of the writers of standards...
ZOOEY DESCHANEL As a New Yorker you can't help but be proud of the fact that so much music and culture started h...
MOBY That's the beauty of music. You can take a theme from a Bach sacred chorale and improvise. It do...
DAVE BRUBECK It's fun to improvise, but I still think it's better to have a great script, you know, like ...
SAM ROCKWELL Jazz is the big brother of the blues. If a guy's playing blues like we play, he's in high sc...
B. B. KING Life is a lot like skateboarding.
LIL WAYNE What is jazz? It, It's almost like asking, What is French? Jazz is a musical language. It's ...
BRANFORD MARSALIS When you improvise, you work off the laughs from the audience, but when you step on stage to do stan...
AUBREY PLAZA When you have your best stuff, it's a lot easier to pitch.
JACOB DEGROM Jazz sometimes can be really complicated and inaccessible to people because they don't know what...
CECILE MCLORIN SALVANT Kind of the sad thing is that - it's still true - a lot of jazz people just listen to jazz, and ...
JOSE JAMES We always feel pretty creative as far as writing songs. We write them together; we just get in a roo...
CHAD SMITH You know, it's funny... when you're making money, people don't think you're playing ...
PETE FOUNTAIN Jazz stands for freedom. It's supposed to be the voice of freedom: Get out there and improvise, ...
DAVE BRUBECK He's a world-famous name to people who care about his music, but there are many people who have ...
MICHAEL FEINSTEIN A jazz musician can improvise based on his knowledge of music. He understands how things go together...
CHARLIE TROTTER I've really learned a lot, really learned a lot, love is like a stove, burns you when it's h...
ROY ORBISON It is a lie.
ARTHUR MILLER I like life on the road. It's a lot easier than civilian life. You kind of feel like you're ...
LEONARD COHEN I don't play the traditional Charlie Parker songs. But I do improvise and I do create with my in...
KENNY G The best morale exist when you never hear the word mentioned. When you hear a lot of talk about it, ...
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER I like to improvise; I think it's just a healthy thing to do, to keep everything loose and fun.
ADAM SCOTT Jazz, of course, is our heritage. Jazz is a culture, it's not a fad. It's up to us to see to...
MARLA GIBBS The most important element to jazz music is being able to improvise. You learn the language of the m...
ERIC ESSEX And more than anything, I like the improvisation of jazz. That's the same thing with DJ-ing. The...
DJ JAZZY JEFF Jazz is like a big secret club. The mainstream media doesn't pay any attention to it; it's, ...
ROBERT GLASPER Life is a lot easier when you realize that you're not in control of it all.
KARRINE STEFFANS When life gets you down, improvise as if crawling was part of the choreography.
IVETA CHERNEVA The worst thing about the life of a jazz musician on the road is getting to the gig. Once you're...
DAVE BRUBECK It's much like playing jazz, flying. It's multitasking in real time. You have a number of in...
AARON DIEHL It's like jazz: You learn the rules to break them - as long as you can break them in a meaningfu...
RYAN NORTH I think that people should learn about that. In most music, there's one way that you do somethin...
BILLY HIGGINS Golf is a lot like life. When you make a decision, stick with it.
BYRON NELSON Jazz is progressive, and it's alive.
KAT EDMONSON My first role was in the George Gershwin musical 'Crazy for You' at the Orlando Repertory Th...
AUBREY PEEPLES It's one of the greatest festivals in the world. New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Fest is the best ...
AARON NEVILLE When you give a lot of confidence in people and you don't get it back, you are a bit disappointe...
CARINE ROITFELD I've heard that George Clooney did something like nine pilots before 'ER' was picked up,...
ANDIE MACDOWELL See, what you're meant to do when you have a mid-life crisis is buy a fast car, aren't you? ...
ROBBIE COLTRANE See, what you're meant to do when you have a mid-life crisis is buy a fast car, aren't you? ...
ROBBIE COLTRAINE If he'd been around 75 years ago, George Gershwin would have written about him 'the way you wear you...
TIM MCCARVER I like to say, jazz music is kind of like my musical equivalent of comfort food. You know, it's ...
MOLLY RINGWALD There's a lot of haters in Philly, but it's a lot of people that give you support - but way ...
LIL UZI VERT It's a circus life, the movies. It's a lot of travelling, a lot of antisocial hours; there...
PAUL GREENGRASS It's like I've experienced quite a weird and unusual life, you know, being with a mom who...
FEFE DOBSON I'm a fan of Jerome Kern and Gershwin. That's my kind of music.
SHIRLEY JONES It's an obstacle being a girl when you move all over and don't have half the things you need...
ALEX MORGAN I have learned a lot from jazz. I compare good acting to jazz music. The more you study and prepare ...
NAT WOLFF Film in the 20th century, it's the American art form, like jazz.
MARTIN SCORSESE Jazz is smooth and cool. Jazz is rage. Jazz flows like water. Jazz never seems to begin or end. Jazz...
NAT WOLFF But I really like hosting, I think it's a strength of mine. It allows me to improvise, and I lov...
GARRY SHANDLING Improvising is wonderful. But, the thing is that you cannot improvise unless you know exactly what y...
CHRISTOPHER WALKEN Jazz radio is not very friendly to pop singers who decide to make a jazz record. But a lot of people...
RITA COOLIDGE Boxing was not something I truly enjoyed. Like a lot of things in life, when you put the gloves on, ...
SUGAR RAY LEONARD It is a lot of responsibility. But I enjoy being a father. That's one of the best parts of my li...
T.I. It is what it is, it is what you make it.
JAMES DURBIN You have to grab moments when they happen. I like to improvise and ad lib.
DENZEL WASHINGTON I like this life. I like it when it's hard, and I like it better when it's not, but I know y...
HOLLY NEAR You do get into a groove, which is great, when you get to act with the same people a lot. Like with ...
MARTIN CLUNES I get good references from a wide range of music. Something who's been a good influence in the l...
RIZ AHMED When you do something best in life, you don't really want to give that up - and for me it's ...
ROGER FEDERER Life is where you're at. Whatever you're doing is enough. You don't need to do everythin...
CINDY CRAWFORD To hear people saying, 'The music you are doing has really touched my life and it's moved me...
KIP MOORE I love improv so much. Listening. I think that's the key. When you improvise, you put a lot of p...
ROB RIGGLE I feel like it's always a good sign when you find yourself talking for hours about every topic e...
DAVID LAMBERT Baseball is a lot like life. It's a day-to-day existence, full of ups and downs. You make the mo...
ERNIE HARWELL People like Art Blakey and Buddy Rich, you look at them playing music, and it's just like lookin...
DAMIEN CHAZELLE It's always difficult to define what jazz is or what jazz isn't. To me, the only definition ...
DAVID SANBORN I do love one-upmanship sometimes, like when you see kids breakdancing and who can do the best trick...
BJORK Sometimes we had to improvise. I hate to improvise because I felt like I couldn't find words.
BERENICE BEJO For me, let's keep jazz as folk music. Let's not make jazz classical music. Let's keep i...
PAT METHENY I knew that I could sing when I was young. I would listen to a lot of jazz; I'm a big jazz fan. ...
ANDRA DAY Improvisation is almost like the retarded cousin in the comedy world. We've been trying forever ...
AMY POEHLER When he entered the anteroom, two women looked up at him. One was Miss Robertson, the governor's sec...
GEORGE P. ELLIOTT Meditation is all about the pursuit of nothingness. It's like the ultimate rest. It's better...
HUGH JACKMAN I think it's a natural human tendency, when you read something, you tend to read a lot of your p...
SAM KEAN The best situation is being a single parent. The best part about is that you get time off, too, beca...
LARRY DAVID Panamanian boxing is unique - it's very musical. It's almost like a dance. It has a lot to d...
EDGAR RAMIREZ I like it best when two ideas collide, like when you have a crazed attitude towards women combined w...
PETER SAUL You have to make sure you have the right people around you to get the right fights, and you're n...
KATIE TAYLOR Jazz and Cuba are inexorably tied together; it's not a branch from a tree. Latin music is part o...
ARTURO O'FARRILL Football's the big cheese, if you like. It's easy to have a swipe. There's a lot of foot...
GARY LINEKER I really feel like life will dictate itself. You should allow it to unfold as naturally as possible....
SHANIA TWAIN I work best inundated with things, when it's like raining information.
RYAN SEACREST The most interesting thing about acting is when you go to the dark places, that's a lot of energ...
JAMIE FOXX Jazz needs the help. It's the more sophisticated music. All the other music is on the TV, but ja...
BILLY HIGGINS You know, I've sung a lot of emotional songs in my life, but when you're writing it yourself...
DIANA KRALL Even in the very beginning when she would bump into George Valentine and people would start taking p...
BERENICE BEJO When you are studying jazz, the best thing to do is listen to records or listen to live music. It is...
CARLA BLEY When everything works best, it's not because you chose writing but because writing chose you. It...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI It's just a great, legendary comic book hero and it's one that has never been kind of been b...
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GEORGE ORWELL It is a feeling of relief, almost of pleasure, at knowing yourself at last genuinely down and out. Y...
GEORGE ORWELL Then the face of Big Brother faded away again and instead the three slogans of the Party stood out i...
GEORGE ORWELL Cutting budget deficits can never be just an exercise in economics.
GEORGE OSBORNE You know, legends are people like Haggard and Jones and Wills and Sinatra. Those people are legends....
GEORGE STRAIT Stock market bubbles don't grow out of thin air. They have a solid basis in reality, but reality...
GEORGE SOROS They are few in the midst of an overwhelming mass of brute force, and their submission is wisdom; bu...
GEORGE COMBE No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible
GEORGE BURNS I know every book of mine by its smell, and I have but to put my nose between the pages to be remind...
GEORGE GISSING It has long been a dream of mine that this important story one day would be told on the great Americ...
GEORGE TAKEI We all think we've got one more boxing match in us, and that, probably, will be the downfall of ...
GEORGE FOREMAN People are hurt in love affairs and never recover, more than a boxing match.
GEORGE FOREMAN I hope to have one more boxing match at the age of 55. Given that demographic at the age of 55 to 65...
GEORGE FOREMAN Oh, there's nothing more dangerous in life at getting hurt at than love itself. People are hurt ...
GEORGE FOREMAN