Showing posts with label Europe. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Europe. Show all posts
Billy Higgins Quotes
"The French - they like jazz, they've been on jazz a long time." - Billy Higgins
Miles Davis Quotes
"In Europe, they like everything you do. The mistakes and everything. That's a little bit too much." - Miles Davis
Chet Baker Quotes
"In Europe they look upon jazz as art. In America it's a diversion. Somebody opens a restaurant and installs another band off to the side. People don't listen." - Chet Baker
Sonny Rollins Quotes
"What I can say is that for may years jazz musicians had to go to Europe, for instance, to be respected and to be sort of treated not in a discriminatory way. I don't think there is anything controversial about me saying that. This is just a fact." - Sonny Rollins
Sonny Rollins Quotes
"Even the most jingoistic person would have to admit that even American cultural music comes from Europe. That's what classical music is, real European music." - Sonny Rollins
Sonny Rollins Quotes
"Europeans really provided many venues over there and hailed the jazz artists, and a lot of musicians went over there and stayed over there for a long time. A lot of them moved over there, lived over there, and died over there." - Sonny Rollins
Sun Ra Quotes
"Not too many people in America know about me, but all of Europe knows about me." - Sun Ra
