What I came back to is that jazz is a music to be played and not to be intellectualized on.
Jazz music just resonates with the frequency of me.
Jazz music is the power of now.
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 washes away the dust of every day life.
I don't have a definition of Jazz. You're just supposed to know it when you hear it.
Life is a lot like jazz. It's best when you improvise.
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 the language of the emotions.
The spirit of jazz is the spirit of openness.
Jazz will endure just as long people hear it through their feet instead of their brains.
Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.
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.
It takes an intelligent ear to listen to Jazz.
Jazz is freedom. You think about that.
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.
Jazz is one of the least learnable art forms.
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.
Don't play what's there, play what's not there.
If I am playing any music at all it is jazz music.
Jazz is the folk music of the machine age.
Growing up, I was very much interested in jazz music.
I love jazz music and sad music.
Jazz music is an intensified feeling of nonchalance.
Jazz music is to be played sweet, soft, plenty rhythm.
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