Jazz and life Quotes

Hipness is not a state of mind, It's a fact of life!

— Cannonball Adderley

Jazz washes away the dust of every day life.

— Art Blakey

Music gives a soul to the universe.

— Plato

Each man has his own music bubbling up inside him.

— Louis Armstrong

If it sounds good and feels good, then it IS good!

— Duke Ellington

Man, there's no boundary line to art!

— Charlie Parker

All a musician can do is to get closer to the source.

— John Coltrane

The idea is more important than the object.

— Damien Hirst

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

— Charlie Parker

Music is indeed the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.

— Ludwig van Beethoven

I compulsively reach for perfection in music, often at the expense of everything else in my life.

— Stan Getz

Jazz is the type of music that can absorb so many things and still be jazz.

— Sonny Rollins

Blues is to jazz what yeast is to bread--without it, it's flat.

— Carmen McRae

The idea is more important than the style you're playing in.

— Ornette Coleman

Jazz is neither specific repertoire, nor academic exercise... but a way of life.

— Lester Bowie

...to me if it's anything, jazz is a verb-it's more like a process than it is a thing.

— Pat Metheny

In my music, I'm trying to play the truth of what I am.

— Charles Mingus

Jazz is the continual pulsation of the now.

— Pat Martino

If you can walk, you can run.

— Publilius Syrus