Anything goes Quote by Thelonious Monk

“Where’s jazz going? I don’t know. Maybe it’s going to hell. You can’t make anything go anywhere. It just happens.”

— Thelonious Monk

Jazz is there and gone. It happens. You have to be present for it. That simple.

— Keith Jarrett

We're having a hard time understanding where jazz is going. What happened to jazz?

— Ken Burns

Hell, nobody knows where jazz is going to go. There may be a kid right now in Chitlin Switch, Georgia, who is going to…

— Quincy Jones

To me, jazz is a place where anything is possible.

— Bill Frisell

Jazz isn't what you do; it's how you do it.

— Fats Waller

One of the things I like about jazz, kid, is I don't know what's going to happen next. Do you?

— Bix Beiderbecke

Jazz is restless. It won't stay put & it never will.

— J. J. Johnson

There's no future without the past and anybody who doesn't really understand where jazz has come from has no right to try to direct…

— Cannonball Adderley

I'm aware that a lot of what is happening in jazz has not had a very dynamic change in a long time.

— Herbie Hancock

Jazz is something you have to feel, something you have to live.

— Ray Brown

Jazz groups have to make a living any way.

— Lester Bowie