351 Quotes About Jazz

it ain't as hard as picking cotton

So how can you say Jazz started in whorehouses when the musicianers didn't have no real need for them?

Amy [Winehouse] changed pop music forever, I remember knowing there was hope, and feeling not alone because of her. She lived jazz, she lived the blues.

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I've loved dogs so fondly, to be fearful of slobbering tongues

The sand boiled the moment the sun burned over the horizon.

Real women don't love the richest guy in the world they love the guy who can make their world the richest.

The great jazz instrumentalists taught me how to sing and interpret a song. they showed me how a horn can have as much personality as an actor.

I'm a person who is unpractical and idealistic. A rebellious dreamer plagued by night terrors. An affinity for the story of Superman, drinking, sex, jazz, writing, drugs, activism, golf, family, cooking, eating good food, reading books and savoring their hypnotic bouquet, for me, is like stumbling over a rock and recovering my equilibrium. This is the story of me.