Cannabis Quote by Harry J. Anslinger

Marijuana is a useful catalyst for specific optical and aural aesthetic perceptions. I apprehended the structure of certain pieces of jazz and classical music…

— Allen Ginsberg

Drugs have nothing to do with the creation of music. In fact, they are dumb and self indulgent. Kind of like sucking your thumb!

— Courtney Love

There's no drug in the world that can compare with playing music.

— Pete Doherty

We don't make music for people to take drugs to, we make music for people to live their life.

— Billy Corgan

Jazz was born out of the whiskey bottle, was raised on marijiana, and will expire on cocaine.

— Artie Shaw

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

There are more bad musicians than there is bad music.

— Isaac Stern

Jazz musicians have some outlaw in them somewhere.

— Mike Zwerin

Everywhere I go, people hear Ricky Williams and the next thing they think is marijuana or wasted talent.

— Ricky Williams

A lot of times, jazz musicians try to educate people. What other genre does that?

— Robert Glasper

Hip-hop and jazz have always been intertwined. Even the G-funk thing. You listen to 'The Chronic,' there's flute solos and everything. It's always been…

— Kamasi Washington

Jazz is not something that can be defined through blunt instruments. It is much more poetic than that.

— Pat Metheny