If your dreams don’t scare you they’re not big enough!
A Jazz Diet will make you hipper, thinner, taller, smarter, richer, happier and more attractive to members of both sexes.
If you are not doing what you love, you are wasting your time!
Spontaneously composed music is a counterpoint that has its own rules based on a natural order and intuitive logic.
Jazz affirms the noblest aspirations of character, individual discipline, perseverance and innovation.
One shouldn’t be in the habit of quoting oneself.
Jazz improvisation is an elusive genius.
Jazz improvisation is the art of collective negotiated expression.
Ideologies separate us. Art brings us together.
Jazz has evolved with an inner necessity characteristic of any true art form.
Miles Davis and John Coltrane were so cool, if alive today global warming wouldn’t be an issue.
Live music is best! Make plans to get out and support your local Jazz scene.
The true musician plays what he/she hears. That cannot be a mistake.
While many forms of music may use the dynamic of improvisation, Jazz exemplifies the unique characteristic of collective improvisation.
Music is a calling that you must bring your best to, whether listening, practicing or performing.
From hard rhythms of Be-bop, the mellow harmonies of Cool, to atonal forays of Free and the Straight Ahead delivery of Modern, it’s all Jazz.
Jazz goes into my coffee in the morning, in my wine at night.
My neighbors always listen to very hip Jazz… whether they like it or not.
Learn the tunes by playing the masters, learn expression by playing yourself.
Jazz – it takes passion to make it happen!
Jazz improvisation is the art of drawing without an eraser.
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