351 Quotes About Jazz

But his own mind was helpless against every moment's headline. He did nothing but leap into the mass of changes and explore them and all the tiny facets so eventually he was completely governed by fears of certainty. He distrusted it in anyone but Nora for there it went to the spine, and yet he attacked it again and again in her, cruelly, hating it, the sure lanes of the probable. Breaking chairs and window glass doors in fury at her certain answers. [15-16]

They call it music, but it's just this side of magic.

Believing equals trust and trust is becoming.

In Jazz, like in America, the group works together toward a common cause with lots of room left for each individual to shine.

And the sculptors will shape the soil for the writers to stretch the seedsfor the patient painters who sketch the petals they will shade in alabaster and gold. Their sweat is the rain. Maybe the jazzman will send us a rose.

Butterflies are but petals upon the sky.

My God, what a sensation to be an atom in the scheme of such grandiosity. The allurement, the jazz, and the physics of it all . . .

Gathering seeds of thoughts, that blows away in the slightest of breezes.

…he didn’t needs words or even want them because he knew how they could lie, could heat your blood and disappear.