Jazz Quotes

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What we play is life. — Louis Armstrong
If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know. — Louis Armstrong
We all do 'do, re, mi,' but you have got to find the other notes yourself. — Louis Armstrong
You blows who you is. — Louis Armstrong
The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician. — Louis Armstrong
It's easy to play any musical instrument: all you have to do is touch the right key at the right time and the instrument will… — Johann Sebastian Bach
I hate Stanley Clark, but I have to admit he's playing Jazz whether I like it or not. — Lester Bangs
I'm a freak, everything has to be totally flat when I play. Ed Will, my jazz teacher, set up everything completely flat, and then you'd… — Travis Barker
And I played in jazz band as well during all three years in school. — Travis Barker
Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth. — Ludwig van Beethoven
Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard. — Warren G. Bennis
I'm very influenced by jazz drummers. I always liked drummers like Roger Taylor, Keith Moon, Ian Paice, John Densmore. I just learned from playing to… — Steven Adler
I can turn on some jazz guitarist, and he won't do a thing for me, if he's not playing electrically. But Jeff Beck's great to… — Ritchie Blackmore
Jazz is known all over the world as an American musical art form and that's it. No America, no jazz. I've seen people try to… — Art Blakey
Blues and soul and jazz music has so much pain, so much beauty of raw emotion and passion. — Christina Aguilera
There's a way of playing safe, there's a way of using tricks and there's the way I like to play which is dangerously where you're… — Dave Brubeck
Jazz stands for freedom. It's supposed to be the voice of freedom: Get out there and improvise, and take chances, and don't be a perfectionist… — Dave Brubeck
And there is a time where you can be beyond yourself. You can be better than your technique. You can be better than most of… — Dave Brubeck
The worst thing about the life of a jazz musician on the road is getting to the gig. Once you're there and playing, it's marvelous. — Dave Brubeck
It's like a whole orchestra, the piano for me. — Dave Brubeck

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