Jazz Quote by Ornette Coleman

NBC has not once given me a music note. I get the freedom to do what I want, and that's kind of amazing.

— Brian Reitzell

A note can be as small as a pin or as big as the world, it depends on your imagination.

— Thelonious Monk

What separates great jazz musicians from average ones is Taste. Those who have taste consistently choose notes, tempos, timbres and voicings that seduce and…

— Marc Myers

Fats - very funny man, but every note that he played was like a pearl.

— Cecil Taylor

For Rostropovich, every single note that he played had a special kind of human meaning behind it. And this was something that he expressed…

— David Finckel

My driving philosophy about making music is that you can reduce it all down to one note if that note is played with the…

— Eric Clapton

“That's the secret to performance: conviction. The right note played tentatively still misses its mark; but play boldly and no one will question you.”

— Rachel Hartman

I'm interested in music, not in my image. If someone plays something fantastic, that I could never have thought of, it makes me happy…

— Ornette Coleman

I'm a jazz musician by education and vocation, but I don't think jazz should [ dictate] what I want to do.

— Dave Douglas

The reward for playing jazz is playing jazz.

— John Lewis

Jazz music just resonates with the frequency of me.

— Esperanza Spalding

Truth of the matter is, jazz is American music. And that doesn't mean bebop. Jazz is really about improvising. All the music that's been…

— Jaimoe