Beats Quote by Julio Cortazar

Poetry, like jazz, is one of those dazzling diamonds of creative industry that help human beings make sense out of the comedies and tragedies…

— Aberjhani

Jazz and poetry both involve a structure that may be familiar and to some extent predictable. And then, you try to create as much…

— Robert Pinsky

“Jazz was about the spaces between notes. It was about what happened when you listened to the thing inside you. The gaps and the…

— Rachel Joyce

A Jazz man should be saying what he feels: humor, sadness, joy... all the things that humans have.

— Bob Brookmeyer

“The structure of a jazz performance is, like that of the New York skyline, a tension of cross-purposes. In jazz at its characteristic best,…

— Anonymous

There's a whole stereotype of the jazz musician that's into poetry and reading and metaphysics and all that stuff. Really, it's a sign of…

— Kamasi Washington

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

— Pat Metheny

Jazz is music made by and for people who have chosen to feel good in spite of conditions.

— Johnny Griffin

“Jazz washes away the dust of everyday life.”

— Art Blakey

Jazz is rhythm and meaning.

— Henri Matisse

Jazz voices that unvanquishable, natural will toward creaativity and self-expression, depite everything, in the here and now.

— Stephanie Mills

Jazz is such a living art form. It happens right in the moment. You weave a story by changing certain elements and components.

— Dianne Reeves