Jazz Quotes - Page 6

But no one, when you stop to think, has ever equated abstract expressionism as a movement with jazz music. It's based on improvisation. The rhythms, the personal involvement, all of this is part of the jazz experience.

Always look ahead, but never look back.

Day in, day out. That same old voodoo follows me about.

Jazz is like blues with a shot of heroin!

If you dig it, do it. If you dig it a lot, do it twice.

I'm gonna live till I die.

Louis Armstrong is jazz. He represents what the music is all about.

To hell with the rules. I'm going for the unknown.

To work is to feel alive.

No one is original. Everyone is derivative.

I think you have to have a jazz pedigree to be on jazz radio.

That's kind of like how jazz is sometimes. You're out there predicting the future, and no one believes you.

Most guys at Berklee are going to wind up truck drivers.

There are Two Secrets to Success: 1. Don't tell ANYONE Everything you know 2.If you have to ask what Jazz is, you'll never know.

The more real you get, the more unreal everything else is.

Jazz will be the classical music of the future.

Damn it, when I'm bombastic, I have my reasons. I want to be bombastic-take it or leave it.

Jazz tickles your muscles, symphonies stretch your soul.

You gotta have a dream. If you don't have a dream, how you gonna make a dream come true?

If music is sound & came from silence, then silence is potentially greater than sound.

Jazz is a beautiful word. I love it.

Instrumental music is increasingly marginalized.

This whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, “Is there a meaning to music?” My answer to that would be, “Yes.” And “Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?” My answer to that would be, “No.”

Monk encouraged me to emancipate the drums from their subservient role as timekeepers.

I took the frets out of my bass after I was getting into jazz a lot and I wanted to have that upright sound.