351 Quotes About Jazz

They had a table near the rail round the huge floor. Bond was spellbound. He found many of the girls very beautiful. The music hammered its way into his pulse until he almost forgot what he was there for.

There are more guys than girls in jazz.Next-to-no lady trumpeters (oh, there are a few)but it doesn't matter because, for me, jazz trumpet is all about one guyMiles Davis.He made this famous album in 1959called Kind of Bluewhich is kind of, always,how I feel.That album gets into your bonesgoes and goesstarts, hesitates, reaches out, feelsfor the music, the sound, the thing you want to change.Always grasping for the unattainable makes youkind of excited,kind of sorry.

On my John Coltrane. In a sentimental mood.

В игре Джонни Ходжеса было что-то возвышенное, необъяснимое и абсолютночувственное. Чувственность, так сказать, в чистом виде, освобожденная отвсего телесного. Под воздействием музыки все углы комнаты округлились. Колени Хлоя лежали теперь в центре некоей сферы. -- Что это? -- спросила Хлоя. -- The Mood to be Wooed, -- ответил Колен. -- Я это почувствовала, -- сказала Хлоя. -- А как доктор войдет вкомнату такой формы?

The kid come in at a strange angle, made the notes glitter like crystal.

(...)"Flapper"— the notorious character type who bobbed her hair, smoked cigarettes, drank gin, sported short skirts, and passed her evenings in steamy jazz clubs, where she danced in a shockingly immodest fashion with a revolving cast of male suitors.

Instrumental music can spread the international language.

I do find modern jazz quite tricky.

When you're dead, you're done.