42nd street Quote by Jack Kerouac

“ORIGIN OF JAZZ It was 1906. People were coming and going as usual along Perdido Street in a poor neighborhood of New Orleans. A…

— Eduardo Galeano

Jazz came out of New Orleans, and that was the forerunner of everything. You mix jazz with European rhythms, and that's rock n' roll,…

— The Edge

The word [jazz] never lost its association with those New Orleans bordellos. In the 1920s I used to try to convince Fletcher Henderson that…

— Duke Ellington

In the year of 1902, when I was about seventeen years old, I happened to invade one of the sections [in New Orleans] where…

— Jelly Roll Morton

I never thought that the music called "jazz" was ever meant to reach just a small group of people, or become a museum thing…

— Miles Davis

Black people invented jazz. But this story [in La La Land] wasn't ever claiming to be that. It's just a story about two people…

— John Legend

Ornette Coleman is doing the only really new thing in jazz since the innovations in the mid-forties of Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, and those…

— John Lewis

It is evidently known, beyond contradiction, that New Orleans is the cradle of Jazz and I, myself, happened to be the creator in the…

— Jelly Roll Morton

I was curious and hungry at a young age, and jazz was such a mystery to me, an ocean where you can express yourself…

— Paula Cole

I can't imagine my life without the extraordinary bebop jazz revolution in New York in late '40s and '50s.

— Robert Wyatt

In my neighborhood, it was all jazz for a while. Then we grew up into R&B and soul.

— Don Cornelius

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