Jazz Quotes - Page 7

Instrumental music can spread the international language.

She has been more famous, over a longer time span, than any other female singer.

Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom.

All them weird chords which don't mean a thing...you got no melody to remember, and no beat to dance to

Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous, you don't want it.

It’s like a language. You learn the alphabet, which are the scales. You learn sentences, which are the chords. And then you talk extemporaneously with the horn. It’s a wonderful thing to speak extemporaneously, which is something I’ve never gotten the hang of. But musically I love to talk just off the top of my head. And that’s what jazz music is all about.

Jazz never ends... it just continues.

Life is not about finding our limitations, it's about finding our infinity.

Jazz music is a language of the emotions.

It is Jazz's very nature to change, to develop & adapt to the circumstances of its environment.

It's like a whole orchestra, the piano for me.

If you really understand the meaning of be-bop, you understand the meaning of freedom.

I feel that Jazz improvisation is the ultimate. You have to create on the spot, the essence of this music.

Because it has such a ragged movement. It suggests something like that.

If you plan on continuing a tradition, it might be a good idea to find out just what tradition it is that you intend to continue.

Jazz demands that you bring to it things that are valuable to you, that are personal to you.

You blows who you is.

Well, I think writing is basically about time and rhythm. Like with jazz. You have your basic melody and then you just riff off of it. And the riffs are about timing.

The reward for playing jazz is playing jazz.

Your sound is you & what you really feel inside.

What's interesting about a person without problems?

The whole thing of being in music is not to control it but to be swept away by it.

If you feel like tapping your feet, tap your feet.

I cannot say what I think is right about Music. I only know the rightness of it.

There is no art without intention.