Christmas Quote by Philip Larkin

“Jazz washes away the dust of everyday life.”

— Art Blakey

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

— Bob Brookmeyer

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

— Stephanie Mills

“The thing in jazz that will get Bix Beiderbecke out of his bed at two o’clock in the morning, pick that cornet up and…

— Wynton Marsalis

“This is why the classical of the jazz music station plays? to give a ground of meaning to our pain?”

— Adrienne Rich

“Do not even suggest jazz. I saw Newsies and was traumatized for, like, five years.”

— Richelle Mead

“In a society of increasingly mass-produced, assembly-line entertainment, where every individual is treated like an empty pitcher to be filled from above, jazz retains…

— Marshall Stearns

“We wanted to sing about the passions of mature women: love and concern for our children, love between trusted and treasured friends, the precariousness…

— Linda Ronstadt

“We'll always have jazz”

— Sophie Kinsella

Jazz speaks for life. The Blues tell the story of life's difficulties.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

“In Paris, strolling arm in arm with a casual sweetheart through a late autumn, it seemed impossible to imagine a purer happiness than those…

— Gabriel García Márquez

“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