Jazz Quote by Billy Crystal Download Open image “That's the thing about jazz: it's free flowing, it comes from your soul.” — Billy Crystal ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Jazz Soul Spirituality
Jazz is not just music, it's a way of life, it's a way of being, a way of thinking. — Nina Simone Copy Share Image
Jazz comes from our way of life, and because it's our national art form, it helps us to understand who we are. — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
Many people forget that Jazz, no matter what form it takes, must come from the heart as well as the mind. — Mary Lou Williams Copy Share Image
Jazz has a lot to do with being very present. You know the structure, then you flow through it. — Lizz Wright Copy Share Image
Jazz is all about being in the moment. Whatever the music is making you feel, jazz gives you the freedom. That's the same genesis… — Christopher Jackson Copy Share Image
Jazz is something that you have to feel. It's something that you have to live. — Ray Brown Copy Share Image
I don't have a definition of Jazz. You're just supposed to know it when you hear it. — Thelonious Monk Copy Share Image
Jazz is music made by and for people who have chosen to feel good in spite of conditions. — Johnny Griffin Copy Share Image
“We tiptoe around like we’re the Frank family and the Gestapo is downstairs. The baby monitor is in our room, and the unspoken rule is that when the kids go down, so do we. So at seven P.M., I’m in bed waiting for the sandman to come. I can’t watch TV, because the noise may wake up the kids; I… — Billy Crystal Copy Share
I'd like to think there is a Heaven, and it starts from the happiest day in your life. — Billy Crystal Copy Share Image
I quit drinking. That was a big problem for a lot of years. Then after that, I just started feeling grateful again. — Billy Crystal Copy Share Image
The house smelled of brisket and bourbon. That's the music I grew up on. — Billy Crystal Copy Share Image
Did you ever reach a point in your life, where you say to yourself, 'This is the best I'm ever going to look, the… — Billy Crystal Copy Share Image
I think when I feel I'm at my best is when I'm on stage, and it's my version of jazz because it's just riffing… — Billy Crystal Copy Share Image
What's so fascinating and frustrating and great about life is that you're constantly starting over, all the time, and I love that. — Billy Crystal Copy Share Image
Those are all real things that I experienced, not with [my daughters] growing up but with the, you know - I'm trying not to step into something and get a call, "Dad why'd you say that?"! But we'd go to games [where score wasn't kept], and I'd get it, but I wouldn't get it, because I think there's a real… — Billy Crystal Copy Share
When you listen to someone improvise, the notes that are played are only half the story. — Hubert Laws Copy Share Image
Growing up in Iceland, it was very beautiful, very safe, but quite isolated. There was something about jazz music that had a way of… — Laufey Copy Share Image
I didn't plan on rock-n-roll. I wanted to learn jazz; I got to know some people doing rock-n-roll with jazz, and I thought I… — Robby Krieger Copy Share Image
Jazz is not something that can be defined through blunt instruments. It is much more poetic than that. — Pat Metheny Copy Share Image
When I was playing piano, it was like, 'I'm going to write a song using all the white keys.' My music director, who knew… — John Tesh Copy Share Image
Jazz is the music of the body. The breath comes through brass. It is the body's breath, and the strings' wails and moans are echoes of the body's music. It is the body's vibrations which ripple from the fingers. And the mystery of the withheld theme, known to jazz musicians alone, is like the mystery of our secret life. We… — Anais Nin Copy Share
Bruce Katz is a spectacular talent! He's a brilliant composer and arranger who uses uncommon and unique musical intelligence to redefine jazz and blues… — Larry Coryell Copy Share Image
I think we've all had enough of Coltrane saxophonists. There's a case of someone ruining a generation of saxophonists, as Louis Armstrong may have… — Paul Bley Copy Share Image
Where human eyes have never seen, where human beings have never been, I build a world of abstract dreams, and I wait for you. — Sun Ra Copy Share Image
It's bluesy, rocky jazz. I call it soul music, but it's not James Brown soul music. It comes from my soul. It comes from… — Tinsel Korey Copy Share Image
I listen to classical music very much. There's a lot of jazz that I don't enjoy listening to. — Lee Konitz Copy Share Image
