Jazz Quotes
There are wonderful things in real jazz, the talent for improvisation, the liveliness, the being at one with the audience.




Jazz is rhythm and meaning.




By and large, jazz has always been like the kind of a man you wouldn't want your daughter to associate with.




...don't think of yourself as a jazz musician. Think of yourself as a human being who plays music.
Charlie Haden




Jazz is like a great void, it waits patiently until a brave musician takes control of space and time.
Chris Griffin




Jazz is a music made by and for people who have chosen to feel good in spite of conditions.
Johnny Griffin




Jazz is the music of the body




Jazz is the folk music of the machine age
Paul Whiteman




Jazz washes away the dust of every day life.
Art Blakey




Boxing is like jazz, the better it is, the less people appreciate it.
George Foreman




I don't have a definition of jazz... You're just supposed to know it when you hear it.
Thelonious Monk




Jazz is not dead - it just smells funny




Modern jazz: Variations on a non-existent theme




Jazz does not belong to one race or culture, but is a gift that America has given the world.
Ahmad Alaadeen




Blues is to jazz what yeast is to bread--without it, it's flat.
Carmen McRae




Jazz is the folk music of the machine age.
Paul Whiteman




Music is a fluid art form that picks up echoes of the past and weaves them into a new sound. The distinct sounds of the past merge together to create what we know today as gospel, western, folk, or jazz.
Ryan Lewis




Jazz will endure just as long people hear it through their feet instead of their brains.
John Philip Sousa




Jazz is... One of life's greatest gifts: fun found within surprise.




Jazz is a feeling, more than anything else. It isn't music, it's language...
Enos Payne




[Jazz singing] is like pornography. You can't say what it is, but you know it when you see it.
Kurt Elling




Jazz today, as always in the past, is a matter of thoughtful creation, not mere unaided instinct.




The jazz band can be used for artificial excitement and aphrodisiac purposes, but not for spreading eternal truths.
Bliss, SirArthur




Jazz is an intensified feeling of nonchalance.
FranÁoise Sagan




Jazz is... An open-ended music designed for open minds.







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