Jazz Quotes

1344 Jazz quotes by 630 unique authors

and will I like being called a jazz baby? --You will love it. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Comedians and jazz musicians have been more comforting and enlightening to me than preachers or politicians or philosophers or poets or painters or novelists of… — Kurt Vonnegut
You can be up to your boobies in white satin, with gardenias in your hair and no sugar cane for miles, but you can still… — Billie Holiday
So for all that we might speak words in each other's vicinity, this could never develop into anything that could be called a conversation. It… — Haruki Murakami
I never liked jazz music because jazz music doesn't resolve. But I was outside the Bagdad Theater in Portland one night when I saw a… — Donald Miller
I never liked jazz music because jazz music doesn't resolve. But I was outside the Bagdad Theater in Portland one night when I saw a… — Donald Miller
Do not enjoy yourself. Enjoy dances and theaters and joy-rides and champagne and oysters; enjoy jazz and cocktails and night-clubs if you can enjoy nothing… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Anyone who's just driven 90 yards against huge men trying to kill them has earned the right to do Jazz hands. — Craig Ferguson
The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician. Things like old folks singing in the moonlight in the back yard on a… — Louis Armstrong
I start in the middle of a sentence and move both directions at once. — John Coltrane
My music is the spiritual expression of what I am — my faith, my knowledge, my being...When you begin to see the possibilities of music,… — John Coltrane
I'm very much aware in the writing of dialogue, or even in the narrative too, of a rhythm. There has to be a rhythm with… — Elmore Leonard
You will never know what the meaning of Jazz is if ask what it means. — Louis Armstrong
...my little blurb wasn't going to win me any speaker-of-the-year awards, but at least I hadn't tripped and fallen off the stage, crushing and killing… — Jordan Sonnenblick
There's something beautifully friendly and elevating about a bunch of guys playing music together. This wonderful little world that is unassailable. It's really teamwork, one… — Keith Richards
When her muzzle grew more white than brown, the chipmunk forgot that she and the squirrel had had nothing to talk about. She forgot the… — David Sedaris
I'm a bluesman moving through a blues-soaked America, a blues-soaked world, a planet where catastrophe and celebration- joy and pain sit side by side. The… — Cornel West
There is something beautiful about a billion stars held steady by a God who knows what He is doing. (They hang there, the stars, like… — Donald Miller
Shut up and let me see your jazz hands — Gerard Way
Amy [Winehouse] changed pop music forever, I remember knowing there was hope, and feeling not alone because of her. She lived jazz, she lived the… — Lady Gaga
We real cool. We Left school. We Lurk late. We Strike straight. We Sing sin. We Thin gin. We Jazz June. We Die soon. — Gwendolyn Brooks
I lay in that tub on the seventeenth floor of this hotel for-women-only, high up over the jazz and push of New York, for near… — Sylvia Plath
Poetry, like jazz, is one of those dazzling diamonds of creative industry that help human beings make sense out of the comedies and tragedies that… — Aberjhani
Are you stalking me, Mr. Fulton?" The idea both amused and horrified Jazz. — Barry Lyga
Jazz hadn't given her many details of exactly what life in the Dent house had been like, but he'd told her enough that she knew… — Barry Lyga

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