jazz Quotes

“A jazz musician can improvise based on his knowledge of music. He understands how things go together. For a chef, once you have that basis, that's when cuisine is truly exciting.”

“Jazz can be so serious, no sense of humor.”

“I think jazz is a wonderful learning tool.”

“Blues and soul and jazz music has so much pain, so much beauty of raw emotion and passion.”

“Most of what I listen to now is mainstream jazz from 1935 right up to and including early bebop and cool jazz.”

“Jazz is a very democratic musical form. It comes out of a communal experience. We take our respective instruments and collectively create a thing of beauty.”

“Dinner 'conversation' at the Cohens' meant my sister, mom, and I relaying in brutal detail the day's events in a state of amplified hysteria, while my father listened to his own smooth jazz station in his head.”

“Jazz is about freedom within discipline. Usually a dictatorship like in Russia and Germany will prevent jazz from being played because it just seemed to represent freedom, democracy and the United States.”

“The beauty of jazz is that it's malleable. People are addressing it to suit their own personalities.”

“We had common interests in the beauty of the French language. We both had a tremendous love of jazz. We shared dreams of getting married and having a family, living in the country, leading an idyllic life.”