#jazz

I wanted to make a jazz record. I didn't want it to be a standards record. ↗

— Rita Coolidge

#jazz #jazz record #make #record #standards

Writing is like jazz. It can be learned, but it can't be taught. ↗

— Paul Desmond

#learned #like #taught #writing

Boxing is like jazz. The better it is, the less people appreciate it. ↗

— George Foreman

#better #boxing #jazz #less #like

I lie around the floor with my cats Billy and Jazz or watch DVDs with my best friends. ↗

— Cathy Freeman

#best #billy #cats #dvds #floor

There was no control except the "mood of his power... and it is for this reason it is good you never heard him play someplace where the weather for instance could change the next series of notes-- then you should never have heard him at all. He was never recorded. He stayed away while others moved into wax history, electronic history, those who said later that Boldon broke the path. It was just as important to watch him stretch and wheel around the last notes or to watch nerves jumping under the sweat of his head. ↗

— Michael Ondaatje

#jazz #new-orleans #change

I think everybody has to kind of decide what the word 'jazz' means to them, and that's fine. ↗

— Kenny G

#everybody #fine #i #i think #jazz

There's a certain phraseology involved in jazz, and I've moved away from that. ↗

— Jan Garbarek

#certain #i #involved #jazz #moved

Coltrane was moving out of jazz into something else. And certainly Miles Davis was doing the same thing. ↗

— Jan Garbarek

#coltrane #davis #doing #else #into

Life is a lot like jazz... it's best when you improvise. ↗

— George Gershwin

#improvise #jazz #life #life is a #like

As far as playing jazz, no other art form, other than conversation, can give the satisfaction of spontaneous interaction. ↗

— Stan Getz

#art form #as far as #conversation #far #form