One thing I like about jazz, kid, is that I don't know what's going to happen next. Do you?

- Bix Beiderbecke

The jazz band's chief stimulus, of course, was the rise of the negro 'blues' and their exploitation by the negro song-writer, W. C. Handy.

- Bix Beiderbecke

Jazz is musical humor. The noun jazz describes a modern American technique for the playing of any music, accompanied by noise called harmony, and int…

- Bix Beiderbecke

I'd go to hell to hear a good band.

- Bix Beiderbecke

The humor of jazz is rich and many-sided. Some of it is obvious enough to make a dog laugh. Some is subtle, wry-mouthed, or back-handed. It is by tur…

- Bix Beiderbecke