Jazz Quotes

Regarding jam sessions: Jazz musicians are the only workers I can think of who are willing to put in a full shift for pay and then go somewhere else and continue to work for free.

never heard of a jazz musician who retired. You love what you do, so what are you going to do? Play for the walls?
Nat Adderley

I donít know where jazz is going. Maybe itís going to hell. You canít make anything go anywhere. It just happens.
Thelonius Monk

Jazz is what I play for a living.

The thing to judge in any jazz artist is, does the man project and does he have ideas.
Miles Davis

Jazz may be a thrilling communion with the primitive soul; or it may be an ear-splitting bore







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