(417 quotes found)
“Life is a lot like jazz.. it's best when you improvise.”
George Gershwin
“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
“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
“Jazz is the music of the body”
Anais Nin
“Jazz is a music that is open enough to borrow from any other form of music, and has the strength to influence any other form of music.”
Herbie Hancock
“A jazz musician is a juggler who uses harmonies instead of oranges.”
Benny Green
“The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician. Things like old folks singing in the moonlight in the back yard on a hot night or something said long ago.”
“Jazz is the only music in which the same note can be played night after night but differently each time.”
Ornette Coleman
“Jazz is not dead - it just smells funny”
Frank Zappa
