Jazz Quotes

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The day of the great Jazz improviser who doesn't know how to read music is over. — Maynard Ferguson
Change is always happening. That's one of the wonderful things about Jazz music. — Maynard Ferguson
I haven't a great Jazz band and I don't want one. — Glenn Miller
Jazz music just resonates with the frequency of me. — Esperanza Spalding
Marijuana is taken by musicians. And I'm not speaking about good musicians, but the jazz type... — Harry J. Anslinger
It doesn't matter if people are playing jazz or writing poetry. If they want to be successful, they need to learn how to persist and… — Jonah Lehrer
We want to show how hip-hop, which kind of fuels today's basketball stars, is directly related to jazz. — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Commercial jazz, soap opera, pulp fiction, comic strips, the movies set the images, mannerisms, standards, and aims of the urban masses. In one way or… — C. Wright Mills
Jazz to me is the spirit of freedom. I mean real freedom. Freedom to explore. Freedom to express. Freedom to pour out your guts. — Herbie Hancock
Jazz can be a blank canvas full of possibilities. — Barbara Januszkiewicz
The jazz trombone is a magical experience particularly to hear and listen too. — John Jensen
Jazz: Music invented for the torture of imbeciles. — Henry Van Dyke
You ask: What is it that philosophers have called qualitative states? I answer, only half in jest: As Louis Armstrong said when asked what jazz… — Unknown Author
If it hadn't been for Jazz, there wouldn't be no rock and roll. — Louis Armstrong
Jazz is played from the heart. You can even live by it. Always love it. — Louis Armstrong
Jazz, rock and roll, movies and comics are the culture of America. — Bill Griffith
You learn from music, from watching great athletes at work - how disciplined they are, how they move. You learn these things by watching a… — Ernest Gaines
Ever since I was a kid, I've been into clothes, but not really labels- that's kind of only been in the last year or so.… — Lorde
Everybody has the blues. Everybody longs for meaning. Everybody needs to love and be loved. Everybody needs to clap hands and be happy. Everybody longs… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Footballers can be like artists when the mind and body are working as one. It is what Miles Davis does when he plays free jazz… — Lilian Thuram

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