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 ...
Jazz Quotes by Power Quotations
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