Jazz Music Quotes

• What I came back to is that jazz is a music to be played and not to be intellectualized on.

  Gerry Mulligan

  Music, Jazz

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• Jazz music just resonates with the frequency of me.

  Esperanza Spalding

  Music, Jazz, Frequency

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• Jazz music is the power of now.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Music, Jazz, Power Of Now

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• 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.

  Horace Silver

  Strong, Believe, Healing

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• Jazz washes away the dust of every day life.

  Art Blakey

  Music, Memorable, Dust

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• I don't have a definition of Jazz. You're just supposed to know it when you hear it.

  Thelonious Monk

  Music, Definitions, Jazz

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• Life is a lot like jazz. It's best when you improvise.

  George Gershwin

  Music, Jazz Hands, Cool Jazz

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  Dexter Gordon

  Music, Dream, People

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• Jazz is the language of the emotions.

  Charles Mingus

  Jazz, Emotion, Language

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• The spirit of jazz is the spirit of openness.

  Herbie Hancock

  Music, Spirit, Jazz

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• Jazz will endure just as long people hear it through their feet instead of their brains.

  John Philip Sousa

  Music, Feet, Free Jazz

  John Philip Sousa (2010). “Six marches”, p.52, A-R Editions, Inc.

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• Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.

  Miles Davis

  Music, Guitar, Self

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• 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.

  Horace Silver

  Music, Uplifting, Order

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• It takes an intelligent ear to listen to Jazz.

  Art Blakey

  Music, Intelligent, Ears

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• Jazz is freedom. You think about that.

  Thelonious Monk

  Music, Memorable, Thinking

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• 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.

  Charlie Parker

  Music, Faith, Practice

  "Acting Is a Job: Real-life Lessons About the Acting Business". Book by Jason Pugatch, p. 73, 2006.

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• Jazz is one of the least learnable art forms.

  Keith Jarrett

  Music, Art, Jazz

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• Jazz music is the power of now. There is no script. It's conversation. The emotion is given to you by musicians as they make split-second decisions to fulfill what they feel the moment requires.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Music, Decision, Splits

  Wynton Marsalis, Geoffrey Ward (2008). “Moving to Higher Ground: How Jazz Can Change Your Life”, p.8, Random House

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• Don't play what's there, play what's not there.

  Miles Davis

  Music, Play, African American

  "SPIN" Magazine, (p. 30), December 1990.

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• If I am playing any music at all it is jazz music.

  Ginger Baker

  Jazz, Ifs

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• Jazz is the folk music of the machine age.

  Paul Whiteman

  Musical, Age, Machines

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• Growing up, I was very much interested in jazz music.

  Jan Hammer

  Growing Up, Growing, Jazz

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• I love jazz music and sad music.

  Fred Durst

  Sad Music, Jazz

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• Jazz music is an intensified feeling of nonchalance.

  Francoise Sagan

  Feelings, Playing Jazz, Nonchalance

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• Jazz music is to be played sweet, soft, plenty rhythm.

  Jelly Roll Morton

  Sweet, Jazz, Music Is

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