351 Quotes About Jazz

The best of jazz for all its virtues cannot escape the limitations of its origin: it is indoor music, city music, distilled from the melancholy nightclubs and the marijuana...

He and I had been talking about jazz (which is to say that he had been talking about jazz, and I had been listening to him talk about jazz, because that is how you talk to a man about jazz)...

Probably hadn't been a good idea to get wasted in the middle of all this shit, but as I've established, I make poor life choices.

No dictatorship has ever approved of jazz.

You're totally going to bang that guy.""Oh, shut up!""A thousand slugs says you two get freaky within a month."I glared at him. He glared back. "Well?" he asked.I finished off my pint. "No bet.""Ha!

My point is, I’m a fan of music, but jazz isn’t music. Jazz is some cockwomble in a beret, wanking himself off with a saxophone.”“Sax-a-phobic, are we?”“Don’t come that with me, Clarence from the E Street Band is a legend, but he’s not doing a twenty-minute atonal arse-clenching solo that sounds like someone sodomising a goose.

Snarky, sassy, jazzy. The way to live your life.

Listening, not jargon, is the path into the heart of music. And if we listen at a deep enough level, we enter into the magic of the song - no degrees or formal credentials required. [...] [C]areful listening can demystify virtually all of the intricacies and marvels of jazz. [...] [T]he people who first gave us jazz did so without much formal study - and, in some instances, with none at all. But they knew how to listen.

Strings were out. Jazz was in.