Jazz Quotes
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I think you have to have a jazz pedigree to be on jazz radio.
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The brain is only three pounds of blood, dream, and electricity, and yet from that mortal stew come Beethoven's sonatas. Dizzie Gillespie's jazz. Audrey Hepburn's wish to spend the last month of her life in Somalia, saving children.
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For years, Jazz At The Philharmonic albums were the only ones of their kind.
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Jazz should be much less about stress on technical exhibitionism and much more on emotional content.
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One of the greatest attributes of jazz, I think, is that it is that open.
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A jazz musician is not a jazz musician when he or she is eating dinner or when he or she is with his parents or spouse or neighbors. He's above all a human being . . . the true artform is being a human being.
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The music becomes something that is its own entity.