Country Quote by Thelonious Monk Download Open image “Everybody in all countries tries to play jazz.” — Thelonious Monk ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Country Jazz Play Trying
Jazz does not belong to one race or culture, but is a gift that America has given the world. — Ahmad Alaadeen Copy Share Image
Jazz is known all over the world as an American musical art form and that's it. No America, no jazz. I've seen people try… — Art Blakey Copy Share Image
Jazz is about freedom within discipline. Usually a dictatorship like in Russia and Germany will prevent jazz from being played because it just seemed… — Dave Brubeck Copy Share Image
It's a mystery to me why everybody doesn't love jazz. I've never been able to figure that out. — Walter Becker Copy Share Image
Today Jazz music is performed & listened to by people of all ethnicity, backgrounds, ages & creeds. — Michelle Obama Copy Share Image
I know jazz is completely un-American. But the reason why America doesn't like it is because it's not funny. We [americans] have made jazz… — Paul Provenza Copy Share Image
As long as there is democracy, there will be people wanting to play jazz because nothing else will ever so perfectly capture the democratic… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
When jazz is played in another nation, it is called American. When it is played in another country, it sounds false. Jazz is the… — George Gershwin Copy Share Image
As long as there are people trying to play music in a sincere way, there will be Jazz. — Lee Konitz Copy Share Image
Everyone is influenced by everybody but you bring it down home the way you feel it. — Thelonious Monk Copy Share Image
A note can be as small as a pin or as big as the world, it depends on your imagination. — Thelonious Monk Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, some of the guys would try to get me to hate white people for what they've been doing to… — Thelonious Monk Copy Share Image
Don't play everything (or every time); let some things go by... What you don't play can be more important than what you do. — Thelonious Monk Copy Share Image
I have to listen to New York; I live there. I wasn't born there, but I've been living there all my life. — Thelonious Monk Copy Share Image
I was playing birthday parties. House-rent parties where they used to sell whisky during prohibition. — Thelonious Monk Copy Share Image
I love playing for my country, getting the support. Especially for the kids and everybody, showing my example of what I can achieve so… — Maria Sharapova Copy Share Image
That country [Carthage] was rapidly sinking into the state of barbarism from whence it had been raised by the Phoenician colonies and Roman laws;… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
If my campaign is not in the debate, we will not be talking about how we really fix this problem of endless and expanding… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
For the Scottish government, the practice of having meetings in different parts of the country is well established, but for the U.K. government, it… — Nicola Sturgeon Copy Share Image
There's no reason someone who has fought for their country should be homeless of jobless. — Chris Kyle Copy Share Image
The image of blacks usually is one of people who are suffering from hunger, unemployment, and poverty. The idea of them as agents and… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
It's very nice to be a rebel saying, 'I stand on my principles,' but if in fact that's not going to have any impact… — Dominic Grieve Copy Share Image
Most paper money initially existed as a substitute for gold. That's what gave it value. But right now what gives a currency value is… — Peter Schiff Copy Share Image
You, of Canada, are building a magnificent record of achievement. My country rejoices in it. — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
The United States cannot and should not discriminate on the basis of religion. The free exercise of religion is at the very heart of… — Mike Pence Copy Share Image
In the nineteenth century some parts of the world were unexplored, but there was almost no restriction on travel.:; Up to 1914 you did… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
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