Florence Foster Jenkins

Jazz is the sound of surprise.

It was in tune when I bought it.

I’ve never recorded anything I didn’t like.

And then when I found my sound, it took me two and a half weeks to find my sound and when I did I pulled out all the stops, all the stops I could find.

I never thought Jazz was meant to be a museum piece like other dead things once considered artistic.

Jazz can only enhance the Classical side and Classical can only enhance the Jazz side.

Why Jazz? This is just the way I see music.

A Les Paul feels like a guitar and I play differently on that and I sound too much like someone else.

The first time I heard Bird play, it hit me right between the eyes.

Music is the most fantastic drug there is!

If you have something in your life worth celebrating, you can put it in a blues song.

Even if people don’t understand the language that you’re singing in, they still know good music when they hear it.

Look at the tune and not make the same statement that has been made a million times.

Once I could play what I heard inside me, that’s when I was born.

There is no truer truth obtainable by man than comes of music.