351 Quotes About Jazz
- Author Billy Strayhorn
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All music is beautiful.
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- Author David Sanborn
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You never get it figured out. You just keep playing.
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- Author Paul Shapiro
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Other people have done jazz with Jewish themes, and other people have done Jewish scales and modes using materials that characterize the sound of Jewish music. I don't think many people have used the liturgy with a jazz band.
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- Author Tom Smith
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The thing with Jazz is that it's kind of like a risk takers kind of music.
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- Author Bob Thomas
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We're trying to keep the jazz tradition alive.
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- Author Studs Terkel
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Something was still there, that something that distinguishes an artist from a performer: the revealing of self. Here I be. Not forlong, but here I be. In sensing her mortality, we sensed our own.
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- Author Renaud Vabres
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Jazz in New Orleans - that's what the world loves.
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- Author Sarah Vaughan
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They always ask me the same questions. Where was I born? When did I start singing? Who have I worked with? I don't understand why they can't just talk to me without all that question bit.
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