“Boxing is like jazz. The better it is, the less people appreciate it.”
George Foreman
“Jazz will endure just as long people hear it through their feet instead of their brains.”
John Philip Sousa
“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
“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
“You know, it's funny... when you're making money, people don't think you're playing jazz. Now when you're not making money, people think that you're a good jazz musician.”
Pete Fountain
“Some people say there was no jazz tenor before me. All I know is I just had a way of playing and I didn't think in terms of any other instrument but the tenor.”
Coleman Hawkins
