Jazz Quote by Duke Ellington Download Open image ““You can’t write music right unless you know how the man that’ll play it plays poker.”” — Duke Ellington ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Jazz Music
“You can't make music, if you don't know how to play the.... instrument.” — ADBanyan Copy Share Image
“What does he play? Guitar? I have to say it: I bet a hot guitarist screwing your brains out would do a number on… — Katy Regnery Copy Share Image
“The more I wrote, the less I needed to play. Once I got started I couldn't stop. This was my salvation. Writing was a… — Ted Heller Copy Share Image
“One must have the music in his heart before he can play it on the strings.” — Carlos Montoya Copy Share Image
“The way he saw it, poker and life had a lot in common. You played the cards you were dealt, figured the odds, took… — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
“You may be sure that a question which requires music for an answer can't be put into words. ” — David Lindsay Copy Share Image
“The music lets me see the story but the story doesn't let me write the words.” — Elizabeth J. Kolodziej Copy Share Image
“Music isn't from what is written on the paper, it is what we make the notes on the paper to be.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Music asks questions that your head will attempt to answer, but only your heart can truly understand. If you try to hide your heart,… — Sue Perkins Copy Share Image
“You write your best music when you’re dealing with something. Get it out, dude.” — Bella Jeanisse Copy Share Image
“THE GAMBLER,THE NUN,& THE RADIO You like music? How would I not” — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
I don't know if I'm a writer who plays poker or a poker player who writes. — Victoria Coren Mitchell Copy Share Image
Jazz today, as always in the past, is a matter of thoughtful creation, not mere unaided instinct. — Duke Ellington Copy Share Image
The most important thing I look for in a musician is whether he knows how to listen. — Duke Ellington Copy Share Image
The common root, of course, comes out of Africa. That's the pulse.The African pulse. It's all the way back from . . . the… — Duke Ellington Copy Share Image
The problem of expressing the contributions that Benny Carter has made to popular music is so tremendous it completely fazes me, so extraordinary a… — Duke Ellington Copy Share Image
If anybody was Mr. Jazz it was Louis Armstrong. He was the epitome of jazz and always will be. He is what I call… — Duke Ellington Copy Share Image
When you listen to someone improvise, the notes that are played are only half the story. — Hubert Laws Copy Share Image
Growing up in Iceland, it was very beautiful, very safe, but quite isolated. There was something about jazz music that had a way of… — Laufey Copy Share Image
I didn't plan on rock-n-roll. I wanted to learn jazz; I got to know some people doing rock-n-roll with jazz, and I thought I… — Robby Krieger Copy Share Image
Jazz is not something that can be defined through blunt instruments. It is much more poetic than that. — Pat Metheny Copy Share Image
When I was playing piano, it was like, 'I'm going to write a song using all the white keys.' My music director, who knew… — John Tesh Copy Share Image
Jazz is the music of the body. The breath comes through brass. It is the body's breath, and the strings' wails and moans are… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
Bruce Katz is a spectacular talent! He's a brilliant composer and arranger who uses uncommon and unique musical intelligence to redefine jazz and blues… — Larry Coryell Copy Share Image
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… — Paul Bley Copy Share Image
Where human eyes have never seen, where human beings have never been, I build a world of abstract dreams, and I wait for you. — Sun Ra Copy Share Image
It's bluesy, rocky jazz. I call it soul music, but it's not James Brown soul music. It comes from my soul. It comes from… — Tinsel Korey Copy Share Image
I listen to classical music very much. There's a lot of jazz that I don't enjoy listening to. — Lee Konitz Copy Share Image
