351 Quotes About Jazz

Trumpet players are just belligerant, and cocky, and you know, just hard-headed.

Don't bullshit' just play.

This is our bandstand. If you don't want to play, get up off the instrument and leave.

Sustained intensity equals ecstacy.

I was working in the local tourist office and I said to the manager, 'We should do something to make Montreux known in America. Let's do a jazz festival!

You've got to learn your instrument.

Kelsey plays the piano, and he's also a tremendous singer. I'm classically trained, and he's more of a jazz improvisatory pianist. So, we don't usually sit down and play together.

Same, just the same. Nine pieces ---- a trumpet, two trombones, reed, congas, drums, piano and vocalist. That's what a Latin jazz orchestra should be.

I like everything, jazz and classical, and all over the spectrum.