Jazz Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

14 Jazz Quotes
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“Jazz is the music of the body”
Anais Nin Quotes
“Jazz is not dead - it just smells funny”
Frank Zappa Quotes
“Jazz will endure just as long people hear it through their feet instead of their brains.”
John Philip Sousa Quotes
“There are wonderful things in real jazz, the talent for improvisation, the liveliness, the being at one with the audience.”
Henri Matisse Quotes
“Jazz is rhythm and meaning.”
Henri Matisse Quotes
“By and large, jazz has always been like the kind of a man you wouldn't want your daughter to associate with.”
Duke Ellington Quotes
“Jazz is the folk music of the machine age”
Paul Whiteman Quotes
“Modern jazz: Variations on a non-existent theme”
Maxim Gorky Quotes
“The true musician is to bring light into people's hearts.”
Bobby McFerrin Quotes
“Don't play what's there, play what's not there.”
Miles Davis Quotes
“I don't care too much about music. What I like is sounds”
Dizzy Gillespie Quotes
“The thing to judge in any jazz artist is, does the man project and does he have ideas.”
Miles Davis Quotes
“I'm saying: to be continued, until we meet again. Meanwhile, keep on listening and tapping your feet.”
Count Basie Quotes
“All a musician can do is to get closer to the sources of nature, and so feel that he is in communion with the natural laws.”
John Coltrane Quotes