" jazz is the big brother of the blues " -B.B. King
"music is your own experience,your own thoughts,your wisdom.
If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. " -charlie Parker
" playing " bop " is like playing Scrabble with all the vowels missing. " -Duke Ellington
" Jazz music is an intensified feeling of nonchalance. " Francoise Sagan
" if the music doesn' t say it,how can the words say it for you? " -John Coltrane
i' m not implying that what I have to say is as profound or important as those past masters,but I guess I 'd rather be a mediocre original than a profound copyist. " Julius Hemphill
" Jazz is gonna be around forever.All that orther bullshit is here today and gone tomorrow. " Jimmy Smith
" Man, if you gotta ask, you' ll never know!" ;-louis Armstrong
there's more bad music in Jazz than in any other form.Maybe thats because the audience doesnt really know whats happening.;-Pat Metheny
;I didnt ask my mother to buy me a trumpet or violin.I started right on the water hose.Rahsaan Roland Kirk
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