Ecstatic Quote by Alice Walker

Writing is like jazz. It can be learned, but it can't be taught.

— Paul Desmond

That's the kind of musical freedom I like: jazz, rock, blues, anything. You adopt different attitudes when you play different music.

— Alvin Lee

One thing I like about jazz is that it emphasized doing things differently from what other people were doing.

— Herbie Hancock

What kills me is that everybody thinks I like Jazz.

— Samuel L. Jackson

Life is a lot like jazz... it's best when you improvise.

— George Gershwin

I play it Kool, gettin to tour just like a jazz player. Your record player ain't nothin without the funky rhyme sayer.

— Kool G Rap

We've played so many places where, if you asked people, 'Do you like jazz?' they would be like, 'Not at all.' But I think…

— Kamasi Washington

That's kind of like how jazz is sometimes. You're out there predicting the future, and no one believes you.

— Branford Marsalis

The French - they like jazz, theyve been on jazz a long time.

— Billy Higgins

I didn't really like jazz that much and was unhappy in that genre. It was what I was doing just to get by and…

— Yukimi Nagano

I like mellow music. I like some jazz. But I'm not a big hard rock guy.

— Gary Carter

I'd love to act. I feel that it's another naked, mysterious challenge, like jazz. It kind of intrigues me in the same way.

— Paula Cole