While many forms of music may use the dynamic of improvisation, Jazz exemplifies the unique characteristic of collective improvisation.
Jazz has evolved with an inner necessity characteristic of any true art form.
10% of musicians make 90% of the money, while the remaining 90% of musicians make the 10% that’s left.
Ideologies separate us. Art brings us together.
Learn the tunes by playing the masters, learn expression by playing yourself.
The more you listen, the more your hear.
It’s spontaneity that has always characterized Jazz music’s finest improvisers.
Music is a calling that you must bring your best to, whether listening, practicing or performing.
While many attempts have been made to define Jazz, what’s the point really. Jazz is to be experienced – period.
Play the way you’d like to be and soon you’ll be the way you play.
My neighbors always listen to very hip Jazz… whether they like it or not.
One shouldn’t be in the habit of quoting oneself.
What’s tied Jazz together is its foundation in the Blues, a reliance on group interplay and the unique phenomenon of spontaneous improvisation.
Music is what feelings sound like.
Hipness is what it is. But sometimes hipness is what it ain’t.
Jazz improvisation is an elusive genius.
It is better to be felt than to be heard.
Practice as if you are the worst, play as if you are the best!
Jazz music has always made powerful statements about freedom, creativity and personal identity.
Live music is best! Make plans to get out and support your local Jazz scene.
Jazz affirms the noblest aspirations of character, individual discipline, perseverance and innovation.
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