#jazz

Before I became a writer, I was running a jazz bar in the center of Tokyo, which means that I worked in filthy air all the time late into the night. I was very excited when I started making a living out of my writing, and I decided, 'I will live in nothing but an absolutely healthy way.' ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#air #bar #became #before #center

I like jazz, but I could never play it. You just sit there with a guitar the size of a Chevy on your chest, wearing a stupid hat, playing the same solo for an hour. ↗

— Dave Mustaine

#chevy #could #guitar #hat #hour

Where I grew up, Bob Wills and his western swing was very popular. And western swing is not that far from jazz and blues. ↗

— Willie Nelson

#bob #far #grew #his #i

The blues and jazz will live forever... So will the Delta and the Big Easy. ↗

— Jack Nicholson

#blues #delta #easy #forever #jazz

Today jazz is still very much alive. Everywhere I go there's a new generation of musicians. ↗

— Toots Thielemans

#everywhere #generation #go #i #jazz

I think jazz is a wonderful learning tool. ↗

— John Otto

#i think #jazz #learning #think #tool

I think jazz is good, but I don't enjoy it. It's not for me. ↗

— Ted Rall

#good #i #i think #jazz #me

On the radio I listen to the easy-listening stations, the jazz stations. ↗

— Patti Page

#jazz #listen #radio #stations

It's sort of what jazz would be if it stopped being snobby and what rock would be if it stopped being stupid. ↗

— Andy Partridge

#jazz #rock #snobby #sort #stopped

Some people try to get very philosophical and cerebral about what they're trying to say with jazz. You don't need any prologues, you just play. ↗

— Oscar Peterson

#any #cerebral #get #jazz #just