Jazz Quote by Charles Mingus

Master your instrument. Master the music. And then forget all that bullshit and just play.

— Charlie Parker

Just because I'm playing Jazz I don't forget about me. I play or write me the way I feel through Jazz.

— Charles Mingus

Just because I'm playing jazz I don't forget about me. I play or write me, the way I feel, through jazz, or whatever.

— Charles Mingus

I'm trying to play the truth of what I am. The reason it's difficult is because I'm changing all the time.

— Charles Mingus

If it sounds good and feels good, then it IS good!

— Duke Ellington

I compulsively reach for perfection in music, often at the expense of everything else in my life.

— Stan Getz

All a musician can do is to get closer to the source.

— John Coltrane

...to me if it's anything, jazz is a verb-it's more like a process than it is a thing.

— Pat Metheny

Blues is to jazz what yeast is to bread--without it, it's flat.

— Carmen McRae

Jazz is the type of music that can absorb so many things and still be jazz.

— Sonny Rollins

Jazz washes away the dust of every day life.

— Art Blakey

Jazz is the continual pulsation of the now.

— Pat Martino

Man, there's no boundary line to art!

— Charlie Parker

I never had much interest in the piano until I realized that every time I played, a girl would appear on the piano bench…

— Duke Ellington

The reward for playing jazz is playing jazz.

— John Lewis