Feel Quote by 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

They say that Jazz is back, and I don't think it's gone anywhere. But they say it's back.

— Art Blakey

In my music, I'm trying to play the truth of what I am.

— Charles Mingus

The reward for playing jazz is playing jazz.

— John Lewis

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

Jazz is not background music. You must concentrate upon it in order to get the most of it. You must absorb most of it.…

— Horace Silver

The saxophone is actually a translation of the human voice, in my conception. All you can do is play melody. No matter how complicated…

— Stan Getz

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

You can't play anything on a horn that Louis Armstrong hasn't played

— Miles Davis

I say, play your own way. Don't play what the public want - you play what you want and let the public pick up…

— Thelonious Monk

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

— Charlie Parker

Never play anything the same way twice.

— Louis Armstrong