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Jazz Quotes by Paul Bley
- Now as jazz musicians we're saying for this society, you can free up your imagination. You can proceed in an area without much information and…
- Ornette Coleman wasn't sure whether he was going to continue with Charlie Haden-Charlie had some personal problems. I said "You've got to be kidding! There's…
- I anticipated all the changes in jazz because they were all problematical things, that I was dealing with myself. In New York in the late…
- I think all record companies should be run by a musician. Just as you wouldn't trust your health to an electrician.
- The Beatles came and everybody forgot about everything else. That was a friendly, together, hip interpersonal music, introducing electric sustain, and it captured the imagination…
- 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 ruined…
More Jazz Quotes
- 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… — 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,… — 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… — Steven Adler