Jazz Quote by Jelly Roll Morton Download Open image “Jazz music is to be played sweet, soft, plenty rhythm.” — Jelly Roll Morton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Jazz Jazz music Music Music is Plenty Rhythm Sweet
Jazz is an interesting music. It's one of the few forms of music where everyone that's performing the music has a creative stake in… — Kamasi Washington Copy Share Image
Jazz is not just music, it's a way of life, it's a way of being, a way of thinking. — Nina Simone Copy Share Image
Jazz music by its very nature is just a conglomerate of a lot of different kinds of music. — David Sanborn Copy Share Image
Jazz is music made by and for people who have chosen to feel good in spite of conditions. — Johnny Griffin Copy Share Image
Jazz music is America's past and its potential, summed up and sanctified and accessible to anybody who learns to listen to, feel, and understand… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
Jazz should be recognized as music of the people, based in a lot of accents and melodies. What is jazz but music that people… — Al Jarreau Copy Share Image
Jazz music is a style, not compositions; any kind of music may be played in Jazz if one has the knowledge. — Jelly Roll Morton Copy Share Image
Jazz is not just 'Well, man, this is what I feel like playing.' It's a very structured thing that comes down from a tradition… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
Jazz is played from the heart. You can even live by it. Always love it. — Louis Armstrong Copy Share Image
I have been robbed of three million dollars all told. Everyone today is playing my stuff and I don't even get credit. Kansas City… — Jelly Roll Morton Copy Share Image
I do not claim any of the creation of the blues, although I have written many of them even before Mr. Handy had any… — Jelly Roll Morton Copy Share Image
The sporting houses needed professors, and we had so many different styles that... it wouldn't make any difference that you just came from .… — Jelly Roll Morton Copy Share Image
You can't make jazz without using certain elements of Latin music. — Jelly Roll Morton Copy Share Image
Rejoice at the death and cry at the birth: New Orleans sticks close to the Scriptures. — Jelly Roll Morton Copy Share Image
My contributions were many: First clown director, with witty sayings and flashily dressed, now called master of ceremonies. — Jelly Roll Morton Copy Share Image
In 1908 Handy didn't know anything about the blues and he doesn't know anything about jazz and stomps to this day. I myself figured… — Jelly Roll Morton Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Jazz music is a style, not compositions; any kind of music may be played in Jazz if one has the knowledge. — Jelly Roll Morton Copy Share Image
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 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
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