I can Quote by George Carlin

I organise jam sessions every month. We have an open session, so everyone knows about it, and we can get as many as 30…

— Tess Gerritsen

Now we also need people who just love to listen to the music. And we need people that want to work to facilitate it.…

— Jon Gordon

A lot of young people want to become jazz singers, but there are not more jam sessions like there used to be. I just…

— Dianne Reeves

We grew up with musicians coming over jamming. We had tons of instruments. So holidays were always like, 50 people would come over, and…

— Elisabeth Moss

Many jazz artists go to L.A. seeking a more comfortable life and then they really stop playing.

— Sonny Rollins

I have seen great jazz musicians die obscure and drinking themselves to death and not really being able to get any work and working…

— Sonny Rollins

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

Jazz has to work. It has to play with the audience and with the marketplace. I think that is relevant to business.

— John Kao

Working in bars back then, in the '50s, to get a job you had to play all kinds of music. There'd be customers come…

— J. J. Cale

I think the death knell for any musician is getting a job that you like and pays enough that you just stay there forever.

— Wesley Schultz

Certainly one of the more common experiences in the jazz field is discovering someone new. Improvising musicians are capable of being musical travelers, voyagers.…

— Gary Burton

You know, it's funny... when you're making money, people don't think you're playing jazz. Now when you're not making money, people think that you're…

— Pete Fountain