72 Quotations with Jazz.
- 1. Benny Green: A jazz musician is a juggler who uses harmonies instead of oranges.

- 2. Wright C. Mills: Commercial jazz, soap opera, pulp fiction, comic strips, the movies set the imag ...

- 3. Gerald Early: I think there are only three things America will be known for 2, 000 years from ...

- 4. George Santayana: It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make Ame ...

- 5. Isadora Duncan: It seems to me monstrous that anyone should believe that the jazz rhythm express ...

- 6. Paul Whiteman: Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.

- 7. B. B. King: Jazz is the big brother of the blues. If a guy's playing blues like we play, he' ...

- 8. Francoise Sagan: Jazz music is an intensified feeling of nonchalance.

- 9. John Philip Sousa: Jazz will endure just as long people hear it through their feet instead of their ...

- 10. Olivier Messiaen: My faith is the grand drama of my life. I'm a believer, so I sing words of God t ...

- 11. Olivier Messiaen: My faith is the grand drama of my life. I'm a believer, so I sing words of God t ...

- 12. Pat Metheny: There's more bad music in jazz than any other form. Maybe that's because the aud ...

- 13. F. Scott Fitzgerald: Though the Jazz Age continued it became less and less an affair of youth. The se ...

- 14. Samuel L. Jackson: What kills me is that everybody thinks I like jazz.

- 15. Molly Ringwald: When I was a little kid I thought I would grow up to be black and sing jazz in n ...

- 16. Francoise Sagan: Writing is a question of finding a certain rhythm. I compare it to the rhythms o ...

- 17. Louis Armstrong: The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician. Things like old folks ...

- 18. David Baker: It is rare that even a jazz musician finds an individual voice.

- 19. Count Basie: I, of course, wanted to play real jazz. When we played pop tunes, and naturally ...

- 20. Tony Bennett: Intimate singing had a wonderful style in the '30s and '40s. It came out of Broa ...

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