Folks Quote by Louis Armstrong

The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician.

— 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

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

— Steve Lacy

Some songs can bring back a whole lot of memories.

— Ramandeep Singh

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

“Valuable memories, like great music, are as much about the things that drop away—the rests—as they are about what stays and sounds. •”

— Michael Harris

Memories are like tunes we've listen to, as it becomes the melody we remember.

— Anonymous

The memories which come to us through music are not accompanied by any regrets; for a moment music gives us back the pleasures it…

— Madame de Stael

I think jazz is actually quite unforgiving in its disdain for nostalgia. It demands creativity and change at its highest level.

— Pat Metheny

Music has the strongest ability to bring back the past because of the memories we attach to certain songs.

— Ritu Ghatourey

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

— Mary Lou Williams

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