What I came back to is that jazz is a music to be played and not to be intellectualized on.
Jazz music is the power of now.
Jazz washes away the dust of every day life.
I may be prejudiced, but I believe that jazz music has the strongest healing potential, and it's not just because I play it and love it so much. I feel that it's the improvisation in jazz that makes it so strong as a healing tool, what each individual gives to a tune from their heart and their soul when they take a solo. It's all spontaneous, and it's all love, and from the heart.
Jazz is the language of the emotions.
Jazz to me is a living music. It's a music that since its beginning has expressed the feelings, the dreams, hopes, of the people.
Jazz is not background music. You must concentrate upon it in order to get the most of it. You must absorb most of it. The harmonies within the music can relax, soothe, relax, and uplift the mind when you concentrate upon and absorb it. Jazz music stimulates the minds and uplifts the souls of those who play it was well as of those who listen to immerse themselves in it. As the mind is stimulated and the soul uplifted, this is eventually reflected in the body.
You've got to learn your instrument. Then, you practice, practice, practice. And then, when you finally get up there on the bandstand, forget all that and just wail.
The spirit of jazz is the spirit of openness.
If you don't like Louis Armstrong, you don't know how to love.
Blues and soul and jazz music has so much pain, so much beauty of raw emotion and passion.
Just because I'm playing jazz I don't forget about me. I play or write me, the way I feel, through jazz, or whatever.
I love jazz music and sad music.
I'm all in favor of getting grants for musicians. Or any other good brand of Scotch.
Jazz music is to be played sweet, soft, plenty rhythm.
People sometimes forget that jazz was built not only in the minds of the great ones but on the backs of the ordinary ones — ordinary musicians.
There is no such thing as a wrong note.
Jazz is the type of music that can absorb so many things and still be jazz.
Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.
Life is a lot like jazz. It's best when you improvise.
It's taken me all my life to learn what not to play.
Jazz is music made by and for people who have chosen to feel good in spite of conditions.
Jazz will endure just as long people hear it through their feet instead of their brains.
I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.
Starting in the middle of a musical sentence and moving in both directions at once.
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