“Giving jazz the Congressional seal of approval is a little like making Huck Finn an honorary Boy Scout.”
Melvin Maddocks
“As with jazz, every performance is new and fresh. When it's in a museum setting, it automatically gives it a new context.”
Curtis Carter
“Life is a lot like jazz.. it's best when you improvise.”
George Gershwin
“If it has more than three chords, it's jazz.”
Lou Reed
“If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know.”
Louis Armstrong
“If it wasn't for [pimps, prostitutes, hustlers, gangsters, and gamblers] there wouldn't be no jazz! They supported the club owners who bought the music. It wasn't the middle-class people who said "Let's go hear Charlie Parker tonight."”
Betty Carter
“Jazz is the music of the body”
Anais Nin
