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- Blues is to jazz what yeast is to bread--without it, it's flat.
- 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…
- Scott Feiner is a soulful magnet for the fusion of Brazilian and jazz music...
- You can not ignore his current life. Bowie has become a family man and enjoys to see his children grow up close to him. But…
- The philosophy of jazz represents tolerance, teamwork and inclusion. That's what America is about. The music reflects that.
- ... I would urge a young player to listen to Charlie Christians' sense of time ... I'll never forget listening to my father (Bucky Pizzarelli)…
- Jazz comes from anywhere the human being has a soul and has a heart.
- And if you look around, if you listen to some music nowdays, I'm not so optimistic...I have the feeling that some of the young people…
- I can play, and I know it; I'm not looking for any pats on the back. I don't have to be endorsed by anybody. I…
- For some reason that only a sociologist might be able to accurately explain, the Brazilian Press was extremely unkind to me, reporting only selective derogatory…
- Tommy Dorsey would walk up to you if you had a tuxedo on and make sure you didn't have on white socks.
- Tommy Dorsey was the last of the band leaders... He was ahead of his time; if he got drunk, he got difficult, but then who…
- He would forget everybody's name, so everybody was called 'Pops'.
- I first met Jelly Roll in Chicago. He was livin' high then. You know, Jelly was a travelin' cat, sharp and good lookin' and always…
- I always called him the Dizzy Dean of music, he was so belligerent and braggadocio... But one thing I always noticed about Jelly, he would…
- You know somethin', man? Some day I'm gonna be walkin' up the street one way and you're gonna be comin' down the other way, and…
- That mainstream English is essential to our self-preservation is indisputable . . . but it is not necessary to abandon Spoken Soul to master Standard…
- Edward Isaac Bickert in never one to blow his own horn - figuratively - he is one of the most modest and unassuming men in…
- I think if it wasn't for the blues, there wouldn't be no jazz.
- In the sense that I also try to reflect the fullness of the black experience, I’m very much a jazz poet.
More Jazz Quotes
- If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know. — Louis Armstrong
- What we play is life. — Louis Armstrong
- We all do 'do, re, mi,' but you have got to find the other notes yourself. — Louis Armstrong
- The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician. — Louis Armstrong
- You blows who you is. — Louis Armstrong
- Everybody has the blues. Everybody longs for meaning. Everybody needs to love and be loved. Everybody needs to clap hands and be… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
- 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