Adventure Quote by Thelonious Monk

Jazz is not about getting and playing whatever notes you want. It is about reworking themes in a manner that sounds good, that can…

— John Kao

The way jazz works is that we take a theme, and then we write using the same structure, same chord changes, and then we…

— Tommy Chong

A major component of jazz is improvisation, which forces you to stay in the moment because you never know what will be coming up.…

— John Densmore

Jazz music is to be played sweet, soft, plenty rhythm.

— Jelly Roll Morton

In jazz, you listen to what the bass player is doing and what the drummer is doing, what the pianist and the guitarist is…

— David Amram

The point of jazz is, you do something and then you go on.

— Van Morrison

Jazz has provided the framework for all the other stuff that I've done.

— Lizz Wright

Jazz goes into folk music, into rock music. Jazz is in practically everything except classical music where they're reading the same music all the…

— Van Morrison

Jazz changes and all. But I don't know the names of what it is I'm doing.

— Stevie Ray Vaughan

You need better technique than I have to play jazz, but what you have to do is the same thing, isn't it?

— Charlie Watts

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

— Fats Waller

I studied and sang lot of jazz when I was growing up. I think that plays a little bit into some of the things…

— Chris Young