Jazz Quotes - Page 9

• Always look ahead, but never look back.

  Miles Davis

  Music, Looks

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• If you understood everything I say, you'd be me!

  Miles Davis

  Music, Understood, Ifs

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• You know why I quit playing ballads? Cause I love playing ballads.

  Miles Davis

  Music, Causes, Quitting

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• I don't care if a dude is purple with green breath as long as he can swing.

  Miles Davis

  Music, Swings, Purple

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• You should never be comfortable, man. Being comfortable fouled up a lot of musicians.

  Miles Davis

  Music, Men, Should

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• I would like to thank my father who discouraged me from playing the violin at an early age.

  Paul Desmond

  Music, Father, Age

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• I'm not much on gimmicks. I never have been because they don't last.

  Billy Eckstine

  Music, Lasts, Gimmicks

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• You can't sing about love unless you know about it.

  Billy Eckstine

  Music, Knows

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• If you want to be a musician, study your craft. Study music.

  Billy Eckstine

  Music, Crafts, Want

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• I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music.

  George Eliot

  Music, Thinking, Should Have

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.822, Delphi Classics

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• He took comfort in the neon signs, the wild strands of jazz creeping out of clubs whenever happy swells of people pushed through the doors in their finery.

  Libba Bray

  Doors, People, Comfort

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• I'd rather call it "instrumental creative music," especially the music that I've been doing. If a person would hear that music, they would undoubtedly call it "jazz." There is this whole generation of musicians that are playing and thinking critically for themselves and making music that's relevant to today. I hope that's the objective of a lot of musicians.

  Eldar Djangirov

  Thinking, Creative, Musician

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• I'm very much aware in the writing of dialogue, or even in the narrative too, of a rhythm. There has to be a rhythm with it … Interviewers have said, you like jazz, don’t you? Because we can hear it in your writing. And I thought that was a compliment.

  Elmore Leonard

  Writing, Narrative, Compliment

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• You will never know what the meaning of Jazz is if ask what it means.

  Louis Armstrong

  Mean, Knows, Asks

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• ...my little blurb wasn't going to win me any speaker-of-the-year awards, but at least I hadn't tripped and fallen off the stage, crushing and killing three elderly jazz fans.

  Jordan Sonnenblick

  Crush, Winning, Awards

  Jordan Sonnenblick (2006). “Notes from the Midnight Driver”

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• 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.

  Keith Richards

  Teamwork, Rocks, Rock And Roll

  "Life". Book by Keith Richards, 2010.

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• When her muzzle grew more white than brown, the chipmunk forgot that she and the squirrel had had nothing to talk about. She forgot the definition of "jazz" as well and came to think of it as every beautiful thing she had ever failed to appreciate: the taste of warm rain; the smell of a baby; the din of a swollen river, rushing past her tree and onward to infinity.

  David Sedaris

  Beautiful, Baby, Rain

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• I'm a bluesman moving through a blues-soaked America, a blues-soaked world, a planet where catastrophe and celebration... "Joy and Pain" - sit side by side. The blues started off in some field, in some plantation, in some mind, in some imagination, in some heart. The blues blew over to the next plantation, and then the next state. The blues went south to north, got electrified and even sanctified. The blues got mixed up with jazz and gospel and rock and roll.

  Cornel West

  Pain, Moving, Heart

  "Brother West". Book by Cornel West, www.npr.org. 2009.

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• There is something beautiful about a billion stars held steady by a God who knows what He is doing. (They hang there, the stars, like notes on a page of music, free-form verse, silent mysteries swirling in the blue like jazz.) And as I lay there, it occurred to me that God is up there somewhere.

  Donald Miller

  Beautiful, Stars, Blue

  Donald Miller (2012). “Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality”, p.100, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Shut up and let me see your jazz hands.

  Gerard Way

  Jazz Hands, Shut Up, Mcr

  "Song: "Shut Up And Let Me See Your Jazz Hands" (Album: "Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys")". 2010.

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• Amy [Winehouse] changed pop music forever, I remember knowing there was hope, and feeling not alone because of her. She lived jazz, she lived the blues.

  Lady Gaga

  Recovery, Knowing, Addiction

  FaceBook post by Lady Gaga from Jul 24, 2011

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• We real cool. We Left school. We Lurk late. We Strike straight. We Sing sin. We Thin gin. We Jazz June. We Die soon.

  Gwendolyn Brooks

  Real, School, June

  Gwendolyn Brooks (2005). “The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks”, p.19, Library of America

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• I lay in that tub on the seventeenth floor of this hotel for-women-only, high up over the jazz and push of New York, for near unto an hour, and I felt myself growing pure again. I don't believe in baptism or the waters of Jordan or anything like that, but I guess I feel about a hot bath the way those religious people feel about holy water.

  Sylvia Plath

  Religious, New York, Believe

  Sylvia Plath (2016). “The Bell Jar”, p.13, Hamilton Books

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• Poetry, like jazz, is one of those dazzling diamonds of creative industry that help human beings make sense out of the comedies and tragedies that contextualize our lives.

  Aberjhani

  Creative, Tragedy, Helping

  Aberjhani (2014). “Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry”, p.2, Lulu.com

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• Are you stalking me, Mr. Fulton?" The idea both amused and horrified Jazz.

  Barry Lyga

  Stalking Me, Ideas, Amused

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