30 quotes found
“There are only two things: love, all sorts of love, with pretty girls, and the music of New Orleans or Duke Ellington. Everything else ought to go, because everything else is ugly. ”
“If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know.”
“Jazz is not just 'Well, man, this is what I feel like playing.' It's a very structured thing that comes down from a tradition and requires a lot of thought and study.”
“The piano ain't got no wrong notes.”
“There's something beautifully friendly and elevating about a bunch of guys playing music together. This wonderful little world that is unassailable. It's really teamwork, one guy supporting the oth...”
“Thats the thing about jazz: its free flowing, it comes from your soul.”
“I wanna show that gospel, country, blues, rhythm and blues, jazz, rock n roll are all just really one thing. Those are the American music and that is the American culture.”
“I think my knowledge of music theory is rooted in jazz theory, and a lot of the writers of standards Rodgers and Hart, and Gershwin.”
“Man, if you have to ask what it [jazz] is, youll never know.”
“By the way, this tells you why Auto-Tuned vocals on many contemporary records sound so shallow and lifeless. Its almost as if everything we learned from African American music during the twentieth ...”
“Jazz is the only lever used by all the riffraff of Tram 83 to switch social class as one would subway cars.”
“Jazz was about the spaces between notes. It was about what happened when you listened to the thing inside you. The gaps and the cracks. Because that was where life really happened, when you were br...”
“He has only heard what I felt.”
“Sometimes it's to your advantage for people to think you're crazy.”
“Jazz is the assassination, the murdering, the slaying of syncopation. I would even go so far as to confess that we are musical anarchists.”
“Back then he'd hammered out rags as rough as the planks that made up that schoolhouse stage. Over the years he's taken a saw and rasp to those tunes and smoothed them at the edges, sanded them slow...”
“She watched him take the trumpet from its case and fit the mouthpiece. She watched as he raised it to his lips and then, so suddenly, from that tiny cup of metal against his flesh, the sound would ...”
“Cripes, just listen to that desperation mixed with a wild joie de vivre. That doesn't come out of nothing. They'll be able to hear that a massive eruption once rocked the world and scattered pain a...”
“I'm very much aware in the writing of dialogue, or even in the narrative too, of a rhythm. There has to be a rhythm with it Interviewers have said, you like jazz, dont you? Because we can hear it ...”
“he didnt needs words or even want them because he knew how they could lie, could heat your blood and disappear.”
