30 quotes found
“They call it music, but it's just this side of magic.”
“The law dont like jazz clubs. No one wants anything to do with that kind of trouble.”
“Few rappers realize the genre sprang from West African griots through Delta slave songs to jazz poetry and the comedic trash talk of 'the dozens.'”
“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...”
“That’s the thing about jazz: it’s 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.”
“Man, if you have to ask what it [jazz] is, you’ll never know.”
“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 didn’t needs words or even want them because he knew how they could lie, could heat your blood and disappear.”
“The law don’t like jazz clubs. No one wants anything to do with that kind of trouble.”
