Jazz Pianist

🇺🇸Tom Waits

Music

b. 1949

"She's been married so many times she's got rice marks all over her face"

🇺🇸Nina Simone

Music

1933–2003

"We never talked about men or clothes or inconsequential things we got together. It was always Marx, Lenin and revolution - real girls' talk."

🇺🇸George Gershwin

Music

1898–1937

"I like to think of music as an emotional science."

"Sometimes I think someone upstairs saved me from being ordinary."

🇺🇸Cecil Taylor

Music

1929–2018

"You practice so you can invent. Discipline? No. The joy of practicing leads you to the celebration of the creation."