Donald Fagen Quotes

I started to play Jazz music in my early teens. A boyfriend brought records over, so I listened to everything

Jazz was more of a tool for me to use to enhance my musicality.

Jazz music creates so many phenomenal figures.

I like to listed to the adventurous guys - the Coltranes, Miles Davis, the guys who just let it loose.

What I'm doing, I prefer to call that jazz, because it is a beautiful word - I love it.

One performer whose band played my music better than I could myself was Art Farmer. He recorded 'Sing Me Softly of the Blues' and 'Ad Infinitum'.

People think jazz music is all standards and the Great American Songbook. But it's really about the sensibility, the feel you bring to the music.

Rock & roll fan that I am, Thelonious Monk is probably my favorite musical artist.

Jazz is a beautiful word. I love it.

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

But I don't really listen to much be-bop at all at the moment.

I wanted to make a jazz record. I didn't want it to be a standards record.

As a matter of fact, we put it down because we wanted to be jazz pickers.

I'm a trumpet player, and I sing jazz.

I was trained in jazz, which I love.

I wanted to keep pushing the musical ideas I had about jazz, music from Africa and the Caribbean.

I've always gravitated toward technical music in general. I love jazz fusion.

I just really liked those trumpets and horns - Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie - and I honed in on that. I always looked for those big horn lines.

My dad listened to a load of jazz - Mahavishnu, Weather Report, Herbie Hancock.

Jazz is an interesting music. It's one of the few forms of music where everyone that's performing the music has a creative stake in the music. In jazz, everyone's improvising, and everyone's creating at the same time.

Miles Davis and Felonious Monk, they're both great artists who enhance things.

I don't think we listened to any rock n' roll at all in the early days. It was Miles Davis and John Coltrane 95% of the time.

I try to make my flow sound like a John Coltrane solo.

It takes an intelligent ear to listen to Jazz.

Jazz music is the power of now.