Jazz Quotations | Page 7

I think this will never happen again once they get finished. We're going to get those musicians back, the brass bands, the jazz funerals, everything.

It is one of this community's greatest treasures. I travel all over the country, and the first thing I do in my rental car is find a jazz station. I have yet to find one that ever compares.

Playing 'bop' is like playing Scrabble with all the vowels missing.

Jazz is a good barometer of freedom.

If it sounds good and feels good, then it IS good!

Science Fiction is the jazz of literature.

My dad was a huge big band and jazz fan, and we both sort of enjoyed be-bop, but man, it required so much skill to play it. And then there was cool jazz, the era that Miles, Coltrane, and Ornette ushered in, and that found a home in me. It turns out that that music was just really where I breathed.

Music and jazz musicians would develop into my repertoire. Jazz standards like these had great melodies written by great composers.

Monk was great jazz artist, but geniuses have a little extra something. There's that little something that you know is a little different.

Kansas City, I would say, did more for jazz music, black music, than any other influence at all. Almost all their joints that they had there, they used black bands. Most musicians who amounted to anything, they would flock to Kansas City because that's the place where jobs were plentiful.