#jazz

Jazz of the sort we play is a happy, extroverted music. You don't have to think about it too much. ↗

— Chris Barber

#extroverted #happy #jazz #much #music

My primary influences were the best jazz players from the 50's and 60's and later some of the pop people from the same time period along with the better of the well known blues musicians. ↗

— Walter Becker

#best #better #blues #influences #jazz

I live in a house over there on the Island, and in that house there is a man waiting for me. When he drove up at the door I drove out of the dock because he says I’m his ideal. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#american-dream #fitzgerald #jazz-age-stories #short-stories #women

I have made a film about jazz that tries to look through jazz to see what it tells us about who we are as a people. I think that jazz is a spectacularly accurate model of democracy and a kind of look into our redemptive future possibilities. ↗

— Ken Burns

#accurate #democracy #film #future #i

I don't know if I have enough guts to do a whole standard jazz record. ↗

— Gary Cherone

#guts #i #jazz #jazz record #know

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