351 Quotes About Jazz

The music becomes something that is its own entity.

You have to go out and learn jazz by playing.

I think the jazz musicians have had less problems than people who feel jazz should be just one thing.

They're not carpenters. There's not a lot of need for jazz trombone players in Shreveport, La.

Jazz is restless. It won't stay put & it never will.

When I joined the band I didn't know any of the tunes, and when I left the band I didn't know any of the tunes!

If music is sound & came from silence, then silence is potentially greater than sound.

It's be-bop, improvisation, ... You get to see different actors do Shakespeare, or jazz musicians do versions of the same song. Why not comedians?

Because it has such a ragged movement. It suggests something like that.