Jazz Quotes

1344 Jazz quotes by 630 unique authors

My own feelings about the direction in which jazz should go are that there should be much less stress on technical exhibitionism and much more… — Booker Little
It is becoming increasingly difficult to decide where jazz starts or where it stops, where Tin Pan Alley begins and jazz ends, or even where… — Duke Ellington
Regarding jam sessions: Jazz musicians are the only workers I can think of who are willing to put in a full shift for pay and… — George Carlin
If America has a future, Jazz has a future. The two are inseparable. — George Russell
I think there are only three things that America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz… — Gerald Early
Jazz is music made by and for people who have chosen to feel good in spite of conditions. — Johnny Griffin
Jazz is an art form that depends on its antecedents, there must be respect for the people that have gone before. — Unknown Author
I don't separate one era of jazz from another, because I listen to everybody... Everybody takes from everybody else and adds their own thing and… — Unknown Author
Jazz is the type of music that can absorb so many things and still be jazz. — Sonny Rollins
The value of jazz still has to be clarified. People involve themselves with its superficialities without digging for its soul. — Stan Getz
I don't know where jazz is going. Maybe it's going to hell. You can't make anything go anywhere. It just happens. — Thelonious Monk
Jazz is freedom. You think about that. — Thelonious Monk
Jazz music is the power of now. There is no script. It's conversation. The emotion is given to you by musicians as they make split-second… — Wynton Marsalis
Put it this way: Jazz is a good barometer of freedom... In its beginnings, the United States of America spawned certain ideals of freedom and… — Duke Ellington
I've had the pleasure of playing with the baddest Jazz cats on the planet. — George Benson
Anyone who understands Jazz knows that you can't understand it. It's too complicated. That's what's so simple about it. — Yogi Berra
It takes an intelligent ear to listen to Jazz. — Art Blakey
A Jazz man should be saying what he feels: humor, sadness, joy... all the things that humans have. — Bob Brookmeyer
Jazz is something that you have to feel. It's something that you have to live. — Ray Brown
Jazz is the only music in which the same note can be played night after night but differently each time. — Ornette Coleman
I never thought Jazz was meant to be a museum piece like other dead things once considered artistic. — Miles Davis
If you're making money people don't think you're playing Jazz. When you're not making money they think you're a great Jazz musician. — Pete Fountain
Rather than say I play Jazz, I simply say I play music. — Unknown Author
Jazz is one of the best things that you can find in your life, it can always be your friend. — George Gershwin
Other than conversation, no other art form can give the satisfaction of spontaneous interaction like Jazz. — Stan Getz

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