“I never thought that the music called "jazz" was ever meant to reach just a small group of people, or become a museum thing locked under glass like all other dead things that were once considered artistic.”
Miles Davis
“Words make you think a thought. Music makes you feel a feeling. A song makes you feel a thought.”
E. Y. Harburg
“What makes my approach special is that I do different things. I do jazz, blues, country music and so forth. I do them all, like a good utility man.”
Ray Charles
“Jazz is a highly disciplined music that is very impatient with people who don't play, well, any sort of lazy imitation that can go with it.”
Robert O'Meally
“Most people think that classical music is a higher form than jazz only because it is from Europe, and we were taught in schools only about Western European history.”
Herbie Hancock
“I knew of jazz, but I didn't like it. I always thought only older people liked jazz - you know, you had to be 19 or 20.”
“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”
Oscar Wilde
