Jazz Quote by Paul Desmond

I played saxophone, so I was into jazz. I learned from each audience and each teacher that I had. I can't really tell you…

— Chad Hugo

I learned most, not from those who taught me but from those who talked with me.

— Anonymous

In the deep, unwritten wisdom of life there are many things to be learned that cannot be taught. We never know them by hearing…

— Anthony Hope

There's an ecstatic side to writing. It's like jazz. It just has a life.

— Alice Walker

We've played so many places where, if you asked people, 'Do you like jazz?' they would be like, 'Not at all.' But I think…

— Kamasi Washington

That's the kind of musical freedom I like: jazz, rock, blues, anything. You adopt different attitudes when you play different music.

— Alvin Lee

What kills me is that everybody thinks I like Jazz.

— Samuel L. Jackson

One thing I like about jazz is that it emphasized doing things differently from what other people were doing.

— Herbie Hancock

That's kind of like how jazz is sometimes. You're out there predicting the future, and no one believes you.

— Branford Marsalis

Life is a lot like jazz... it's best when you improvise.

— George Gershwin

I play it Kool, gettin to tour just like a jazz player. Your record player ain't nothin without the funky rhyme sayer.

— Kool G Rap

Life is not learned its taught

— Shauntavia Brooks