Jazz musician Quote by Jarod Kintz

Jazz speaks for life. The Blues tell the story of life's difficulties.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

“You play me with your jazz & leave me with the blues.”

— Curtis Tyrone Jones

“If you have to ask what jazz is you will never know." Louis Armstrong”

— Louis Armstrong

I don't think of myself as a jazz musician but a medicine man.

— Abdullah Ibrahim

“Do not even suggest jazz. I saw Newsies and was traumatized for, like, five years.”

— Richelle Mead

“Now, during our catastrophically idiotic war in Vietnam, the music kept getting better and better and better. We lost that war, by the way.…

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr

“I was a wise-a** college student of twenty at the time and a precocious musician, with somewhat of that screw-you-I'm-a-jazz-player attitude.”

— Gene Hull

Jazz is like blues with a shot of heroin!

— Miles Davis

I wouldn't call myself a jazz player or a blues player.

— Dickey Betts

“We'll always have jazz”

— Sophie Kinsella

“The Schnauzer listens to jazz. I listen to jazz because he likes it, and I have even gone to jazz concerts with him, but…

— Augusten Burroughs

I remember the first time I was booked into a jazz club. I was scared to death. I'm not a jazz artist. So I…

— Richie Havens