“[4. Dianne Reeves She supplies the lush jazz vocals in] Good Night, and Good Luck ... Billie & Me.”
Billie Holiday
“Jazz is the only music in which the same note can be played night after night but differently each time.”
Ornette Coleman
“Life is a lot like jazz.. it's best when you improvise.”
George Gershwin
“If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know.”
Louis Armstrong
“If it has more than three chords, it's jazz.”
Lou Reed
“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