351 Quotes About Jazz

When stealing from other players, an older musician wisely advised me, choose a different instrument from your own, and people won’t notice the theft.

Jazz is the only lever used by all the riffraff of Tram 83 to switch social class as one would subway cars.

Jazz was about the spaces between notes. It was about what happened when you listened to the thing inside you. The gaps and the cracks. Because that was where life really happened, when you were brave enough to free-fall.

I continue down the path called the future

Future and past meet during the present.

Twist a tongue, and tongue a twist how many twists can a tongue twister twist around the twisting tongue.

The static’s nice. I could do without the screeching.”“Are you kidding? That’s the music of the spheres, commissar. It’s beautiful. Like old jazz.

The snow is falling like a delicate rain of frozen mist

What solicited my attention was whether the cultural associations of jazz were as important to Cardinal’s “possession” as were its intellectual foundations. I was interested, as I had been... in the way black people ignite critical moments of discovery or change or emphasis in literature not written by them. In fact I had started, casually like a game, keeping a file of such instances.