351 Quotes About Jazz

Sans le jazz, la vie serait une erreur

The piano ain't got no wrong notes.

There's something beautifully friendly and elevating about a bunch of guys playing music together. This wonderful little world that is unassailable. It's really teamwork, one guy supporting the others, and it's all for one purpose, and there's no flies in the ointment, for a while. And nobody conducting, it's all up to you. It's really jazz__that's the big secret. Rock and roll ain't nothing but jazz with a hard backbeat.

Jazz is the only unhampered, unhindered expression of complete freedom yet produced in this country.

That’s the thing about jazz: it’s free flowing, it comes from your soul.

Man, if you have to ask what it [jazz] is, you’ll never know.

I think my knowledge of music theory is rooted in jazz theory, and a lot of the writers of standards – Rodgers and Hart, and Gershwin.

Music was the color of time, that's what it was. Time's color. Pink mornings, blue nights, golden afternoons.

When I point my fingers at the keys, the music springs straight out of me. Right hand playing notes sharp as tongues, telling stories while the smooth buttery rhythms back me up on the left.