351 Quotes About Jazz

You will never know what the meaning of Jazz is if ask what it means.

Alice thought, No. It wasn't the War and the disgruntled veterans; it wasn't the droves and droves of colored people flocking to paychecks and streets full of themselves. It was the music. The dirty, get-on-down music the women sang and the men played and both danced to, close and shamelesss or apart and wild...It made you do unwise disorderly things. Just hearing it was like violating the law.

A psychic friend could come in very handy." I reshuffled my cards."I predict I will," she said.

And that's the soulful thing about playing: you offer something to somebody. You don't know if they'll like it, but you offer it.

T was in a blue mood , his open reflections on the isloation of his life floating like Jazz notes under a "pink moon

A family who smokes together, chokes together.

Jazz is the false liquidation of art — instead of utopia becoming reality it disappears from the picture.

A psychic laywer is a lethal combination in a mother.

I remember once I asked Wayne for the time," Miller told Mercer. "He started talking to me about the cosmos and how time is relative." Miller and [Wayne] Shorter were waiting somewhere -- an airport, a train station, a hotel. The band's keyboardist, Joe Zawinul, who took charge of such matters as what the road crew was supposed to do and when, set Miller straight. "You don't ask Wayne shit like that," he snapped. "It's 7:06 p.m." [p.1]