If you find a note tonight that sounds good, play the same…

Well, if you find a note tonight that sounds good, play the same damn note every night!

— Count Basie

52,000 here tonight, but it sounds like 50,000.

— Bryon Butler

If I want to tuck my son into bed and read him a story, but that means I have to take a red-eye to…

— Idina Menzel

I say, play your own way. Don't play what the public want - you play what you want and let the public pick up…

— Thelonious Monk

Never play anything the same way twice.

— Louis Armstrong

I never had much interest in the piano until I realized that every time I played, a girl would appear on the piano bench…

— Duke Ellington

You know, it's funny... when you're making money, people don't think you're playing jazz. Now when you're not making money, people think that you're…

— Pete Fountain

If you're making money people don't think you're playing Jazz. When you're not making money they think you're a great Jazz musician.

— Pete Fountain

Master your instrument. Master the music. And then forget all that bullshit and just play.

— Charlie Parker

Switch to piano! No. Really, if you like an instrument that sings, play the saxophone. At its best it's like the human voice. Of…

— Stan Getz

I have a theory that musicians recognize each other and if they are destined to collaborate together they will. Mainly, they recognize each other…

— Vlatko Stefanovski

We grew up with musicians coming over jamming. We had tons of instruments. So holidays were always like, 50 people would come over, and…

— Elisabeth Moss

It was liberating to do comedy. It felt like playing in a jazz band.

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I started playing jazz by slowing down Tal Farlow records and analyzing his runs

— Lenny Breau

The reward for playing jazz is playing jazz.

— John Lewis