Gone Quote by Louis Armstrong

The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician. Things like old folks singing in the moonlight in the back yard on…

— Louis Armstrong

Many of the jazz musicians whom are no longer here. You don't realize that it's history when it is happening and then time passes…

— Carol Friedman

Many people forget that Jazz, no matter what form it takes, must come from the heart as well as the mind.

— Mary Lou Williams

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

I still love the whole history of Jazz. The old things sound better than ever.

— Steve Lacy

Just because I'm playing Jazz I don't forget about me. I play or write me the way I feel through Jazz.

— Charles Mingus

Just because I'm playing jazz I don't forget about me. I play or write me, the way I feel, through jazz, or whatever.

— Charles Mingus

There's no future without the past and anybody who doesn't really understand where jazz has come from has no right to try to direct…

— Cannonball Adderley

People sometimes forget that jazz was built not only in the minds of the great ones but on the backs of the ordinary ones…

— Cab Calloway

Jazz is the continual pulsation of the now.

— Pat Martino

What I came back to is that jazz is a music to be played and not to be intellectualized on.

— Gerry Mulligan

The history of jazz lets us know that this period in our history is not the only period we've come through together. If we…

— Wynton Marsalis