Jazz Music Quotes

Jazz Music Quote of the day

Jazz is not just music, it's a way of life, it's a way of being, a way of thinking.

You can play a shoestring if you're sincere.

Life is a lot like jazz. It's best when you improvise.

If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know.

Jazz music is an intensified feeling of nonchalance.

To jazz, or not to jazz, there is no question!

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

There are only two things: love, all sorts of love, with pretty girls, and the music of New Orleans or Duke Ellington. Everything else ought to go, because everything else is ugly.

The spirit of jazz is the spirit of openness.

Imitate, assimilate, and innovate.

I tried practicing for a few weeks and ended up playing too fast.

External instruments are only extensions of the biological instrument.

What I came back to is that jazz is a music to be played and not to be intellectualized on.

Music is interior decoration.

They flat their fifths, we drink ours.

If I'm not saying it in four choruses or less, then I'm not saying it.

If everyone liked what I did, I probably wouldn't be playing anything of depth.

All the music you've ever heard in your life is somewhere in your head. I don't reject that, I use it.

I think music as we know it, is autobiographical.

Music chooses her musicians.

You don't have to live the blues to play the blues.

I have been doing music all my life so everyday when I get up I expect music will be part of it.

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

Jazz music is a style, not compositions; any kind of music may be played in Jazz if one has the knowledge.

I always think of music as interior decoration. So, if you have all kinds of music, you are fully decorated!

It isn't true that you live only once. You only die once. You live lots of times if you know how.

Once you discover that you can, then you must.

Always look ahead, but never look back.

Jazz is a word they use to sell our music, but to me that word does not exist.

Next to jazz music, there is nothing that lifts the spirit and strengthens the soul more than a good bowl of chili.

No one is original. Everyone is derivative.

Jazz music is a language of the emotions.

Life is not about finding our limitations, it's about finding our infinity.

The whole thing of being in music is not to control it but to be swept away by it.

Your sound is you & what you really feel inside.

I cannot say what I think is right about Music. I only know the rightness of it.

Imitate, assimilate & innovate.

That.s what Jazz music is all about.We started the Messengers because somebody had to mind the store for jazz.No America--no Jazz. It is the only culture that America has brought forth.

The piano ain't got no wrong notes.

I progressed through so many different styles of music through my teen years, both as a player and a vocalist, particularly the jazz and pop of the early 20th Century.

By its very nature, no one person can ever be the center of Jazz.

We must be as pure as our music.

If you understood everything I say, you'd be me!

I don't need words. It's all in the phrasing.

When you're dead, you're done.

I've been told that nobody sings the word 'hunger' like I do.

If I am playing any music at all it is jazz music.

Jazz is like a telescope, and a lot of other music is like a microscope.

I like the music. I love it & live it in fact. But for me the business part of music just plain stinks.

I compose my pieces with a formula that I created myself.