Band Quote by Wynton Marsalis

Who knows ... we'll be playing Jazz and having a good time!

— Art Blakey

Whatever it is, music should sound spontaneous, I've derived a great deal of pleasure from playing jazz and having the knowledge of that spontaneity.

— Julian Bream

I'm out there doing the best that I can, My lip is cut and I'm still playing.

— Miles Davis

You're playing a role, but you're still feeling it. You can walk away from it after 'Cut,' but if you're playing a sad or…

— Nick Nolte

If you don't get cut up once in a while, you're playing basketball the wrong way.

— Fred VanVleet

If aliens came down and challenged us to a Battle of the Bands to decide the fate of Planet Earth, I would feel very…

— Tom Morello

At the battle of the bands the loser's always the audience.

— Demetri Martin

When I was young, my ambitions were very modest. I thought, "If only I could play at the battle of the bands at the…

— Neil Peart

Our first gig was a battle of the bands. We did 45 minutes of comedy and never played a note - and we won!

— Cheech Marin

Jazz music celebrates life! Human life; the range of it, the absurdity of it, the ignorance of it, the greatness of it, the intelligence…

— Wynton Marsalis

“I noticed that religion gave some people a way to escape dealing with the world: “Things will be better when you die,” the people…

— Wynton Marsalis

In the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra we play such a diversity of music, with 10 arrangers in the band, we don't really worry…

— Wynton Marsalis

“Today you go into make a modern recording with all this technology. The bass plays first, then the drums come in later, then they…

— Wynton Marsalis

And that's the soulful thing about playing: you offer something to somebody. You don't know if they'll like it, but you offer it.

— Wynton Marsalis

Louis Armstrong is jazz. He represents what the music is all about.

— Wynton Marsalis