“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.”
Herbie Hancock
“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
“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”
Oscar Wilde
“Jazz will endure just as long people hear it through their feet instead of their brains.”
John Philip Sousa
“You hear about the Duke Ellingtons, the Jimmie Luncefords, and the Fletcher Hendersons, but people sometimes forget that jazz was not only built in the minds of the great ones, but on the backs of the ordinary ones.”
Cab Calloway
“The people in Japan know more about the history of jazz and the musicians than the people in the United States do.”
Billy Higgins
“Some people are born with a brain that has this weird, magical mathematical thing that makes them an amazing jazz musician.”
Andy Richter
