Quotes on Jazz And Life

Jazz is the type of music that can absorb so many things and still be jazz.

Jazz washes away the dust of every day life.

...to me if it's anything, jazz is a verb-it's more like a process than it is a thing.

If music be the food of love, play on.

They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.

Don't play what's there, play what's not there.

Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.

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

If you don't live it, it won't come out your horn.

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

Master your instrument. Master the music. And then forget all that bullshit and just play.

There is no truer truth obtainable by Man than comes of music

Music is well said to be the speech of angels.

A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

For me, music and life are all about style.

Music is enough for a lifetime - but a lifetime is not enough for music.

Jazz is the only music in which the same note can be played night after night but differently each time.

A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.