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I listened so hard because it felt like, while she was telling me stories, she was massaging my soul, letting me know that I was not alone, that I will never have to be alone, that there are friends and family and churches and coffee shops. I was not going to be cast into space. ~ Donald Miller
Jazz Inspirational quotes by Donald Miller
It occurred to me by intuition, and music was the driving force behind that intuition. My discovery was the result of musical perception. ~ Albert Einstein
Jazz Inspirational quotes by Albert Einstein
There is something beautiful about all scars of whatever nature. A scar means the hurt is over, the wound is closed and healed, done with. ~ Harry Crews
Jazz Inspirational quotes by Harry Crews
Jazz is rhythm and meaning. ~ Henri Matisse
Jazz Inspirational quotes by Henri Matisse
Life is a lot like jazz - it's best when you improvise. ~ George Gershwin
Jazz Inspirational quotes by George Gershwin
We have gone sick by following a path of untrammelled rationalism, male dominance, attention to the visible surface of things, practicality, bottom-line-ism. We have gone very, very sick. And the body politic, like any body, when it feels itself to be sick, it begins to produce antibodies, or strategies for overcoming the condition of dis-ease. And the 20th century is an enormous effort at self-healing. Phenomena as diverse as surrealism, body piercing, psychedelic drug use, sexual permissiveness, jazz, experimental dance, rave culture, tattooing, the list is endless. What do all these things have in common? They represent various styles of rejection of linear values. The society is trying to cure itself by an archaic revival, by a reversion to archaic values. So when I see people manifesting sexual ambiguity, or scarifying themselves, or showing a lot of flesh, or dancing to syncopated music, or getting loaded, or violating ordinary canons of sexual behaviour, I applaud all of this; because it's an impulse to return to what is felt by the body -- what is authentic, what is archaic -- and when you tease apart these archaic impulses, at the very centre of all these impulses is the desire to return to a world of magical empowerment of feeling.

And at the centre of that impulse is the shaman: stoned, intoxicated on plants, speaking with the spirit helpers, dancing in the moonlight, and vivifying and invoking a world of conscious, living mystery. That's what the world ~ Terence McKenna
Jazz Inspirational quotes by Terence McKenna
It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing. ~ Duke Ellington
Jazz Inspirational quotes by Duke Ellington
Creativity and artistic endeavors have a mission that goes far beyond just making music for the sake of music ~ Herbie Hancock
Jazz Inspirational quotes by Herbie Hancock
Kenny G is not real jazz. I don't even think Wynton Marsalis is real jazz. I don't think Harry Connick Jr. is real jazz. If there is such a thing as real jazz, The Lounge Lizards is real jazz, Henry Threadgill is real jazz, Bill Frisell is real jazz, you know? ~ John Lurie
Jazz Inspirational quotes by John Lurie
To jazz, or not to jazz, there is no question! ~ Louis Armstrong
Jazz Inspirational quotes by Louis Armstrong
Jazz is very much alive. Everywhere I go there's a new generation of musicians playing Jazz music. ~ Toots Thielemans
Jazz Inspirational quotes by Toots Thielemans
Jazz musicians are the coolest people on the planet. Can I have some cool? ~ Jon Stewart
Jazz Inspirational quotes by Jon Stewart
Jazz shouldn't have any mandates. Jazz is not supposed to be something that's required to sound like jazz. For me, the word 'jazz' means, 'I dare you.' ~ Wayne Shorter
Jazz Inspirational quotes by Wayne Shorter
Jazz music is an intensified feeling of nonchalance. ~ Francoise Sagan
Jazz Inspirational quotes by Francoise Sagan
In my music, I'm trying to play the truth of what I am. ~ Charles Mingus
Jazz Inspirational quotes by Charles Mingus
There are a million examples of not feeling the jazz, but using the jazz. ~ Zooey Deschanel
Jazz Inspirational quotes by Zooey Deschanel
I got into trad jazz, then modern jazz, then avant-garde jazz, between the ages of 16 to 18. ~ Roy Harper
Jazz Inspirational quotes by Roy Harper
It's not jazz as we know jazz here in America. ~ Les Paul
Jazz Inspirational quotes by Les Paul
Jazz is the continual pulsation of the now. ~ Pat Martino
Jazz Inspirational quotes by Pat Martino
Jazz is what I play for a living. ~ Louis Armstrong
Jazz Inspirational quotes by Louis Armstrong
I love music, I love all kinds of music, particularly jazz. Jazz is an extension of America. There's no other country in the world that could have produced jazz. ~ Jon Huntsman, Jr.
Jazz Inspirational quotes by Jon Huntsman, Jr.
If you're making money people don't think you're playing Jazz. When you're not making money they think you're a great Jazz musician. ~ Pete Fountain
Jazz Inspirational quotes by Pete Fountain
Nothing says "i came here to win" like jazz hands ~ Josh Ramsay
Jazz Inspirational quotes by Josh Ramsay
My dad is a big jazz fan, and that was the reason I first got into jazz. ~ Damien Chazelle
Jazz Inspirational quotes by Damien Chazelle
We're having a hard time understanding where jazz is going. What happened to jazz? ~ Ken Burns
Jazz Inspirational quotes by Ken Burns
The jazz and blues clubs are like the jazz and blues musicians - they're disappearing. ~ Buddy Guy
Jazz Inspirational quotes by Buddy Guy
A lot of jazz artists think people should like what they're doing just because it's jazz. I don't buy that. ~ Pat Metheny
Jazz Inspirational quotes by Pat Metheny
I've been around jazz and jazz musicians most of my life. ~ Kenneth Rexroth
Jazz Inspirational quotes by Kenneth Rexroth
I got my love of jazz from my stepfather, who was a jazz musician. ~ Flea
Jazz Inspirational quotes by Flea
Jazz music just resonates with the frequency of me. ~ Esperanza Spalding
Jazz Inspirational quotes by Esperanza Spalding
I've listened to Jazz since I was born and always knew I'd be a Jazz singer! ~ Jane Monheit
Jazz Inspirational quotes by Jane Monheit
Europe was a very contentious subject in literature and yet jazz musicians still depended on Europe. Now it's not such a big deal. ~ Darryl Pinckney
Jazz Inspirational quotes by Darryl Pinckney
Jazz is the folk music of the machine age. ~ Paul Whiteman
Jazz Inspirational quotes by Paul Whiteman
To most white people, jazz means black and jazz means dirt, and that's not what I play. I play black classical music. ~ Nina Simone
Jazz Inspirational quotes by Nina Simone
Once the jazz musician learns all the fundamentals they can keep track of a lot of choices in an instant. ~ Sheena Iyengar
Jazz Inspirational quotes by Sheena Iyengar
Jazz is the type of music that can absorb so many things and still be jazz. ~ Sonny Rollins
Jazz Inspirational quotes by Sonny Rollins
By its very nature, no one person can ever be the center of jazz. ~ Ken Burns
Jazz Inspirational quotes by Ken Burns
It is jazz music that called me to be a musician and I have always sang the songs that moved me the most. ~ Harry Connick, Jr.
Jazz Inspirational quotes by Harry Connick, Jr.
I was considered as a jazz man rather than as a blues player. There were no blues players-you played one sort of jazz of another sort of jazz. ~ Alexis Korner
Jazz Inspirational quotes by Alexis Korner
It's a shame that jazz is now being turned into dried fruit. It's becoming quantized, diced and defined. It's becoming an idiom. To me if it's anything, jazz is a verb ? it's more like a process than it is a thing. ~ Pat Metheny
Jazz Inspirational quotes by Pat Metheny
What kills me is that everybody thinks I like Jazz. ~ Samuel L. Jackson
Jazz Inspirational quotes by Samuel L. Jackson
Jazz really does try to include everything. It's always been popular music. But the wonderful thing about jazz is its willingness to take chances. ~ Madeleine Peyroux
Jazz Inspirational quotes by Madeleine Peyroux
Just because I'm playing Jazz I don't forget about me. I play or write me the way I feel through Jazz. ~ Charles Mingus
Jazz Inspirational quotes by Charles Mingus
So I went into jazz and performed in jazz clubs all over the country. ~ Cy Coleman
Jazz Inspirational quotes by Cy Coleman
Whoever invented smooth jazz, man, I wanna kill 'em: You're turning an art form into a hooker. ~ Phil Woods
Jazz Inspirational quotes by Phil Woods
If I'm not a jazz player all the time, I've at least been cued in to what I do by jazz. ~ Keith Jarrett
Jazz Inspirational quotes by Keith Jarrett
If I am playing any music at all it is jazz music. ~ Ginger Baker
Jazz Inspirational quotes by Ginger Baker
Poetry, like jazz, is one of those dazzling diamonds of creative industry that help human beings make sense out of the comedies and tragedies that contextualize our lives. ~ Aberjhani
Jazz Inspirational quotes by Aberjhani
Jazz is the language of the emotions. ~ Charles Mingus
Jazz Inspirational quotes by Charles Mingus
I was a jazz major in high school, in an all-jazz band. No matter what I do, it features my musical influences. ~ Wyclef Jean
Jazz Inspirational quotes by Wyclef Jean
The French - they like jazz, they've been on jazz a long time. ~ Billy Higgins
Jazz Inspirational quotes by Billy Higgins
I don't like heroin, unless you're a jazz musician and then you have to be on it because jazz is the sound of heroin. ~ John Waters
Jazz Inspirational quotes by John Waters
I always tell my students when you're going to be a jazz musician the first thing you've got to do is be a professional musician, and that means you have to feed yourself with the instrument. ~ Lester Bowie
Jazz Inspirational quotes by Lester Bowie
That did explain his sucky home life growing up but didn't excuse the way he treated others. Was there childcare for abused werewolves? ~ Jazz Feylynn
Jazz Inspirational quotes by Jazz Feylynn
For me it's the high-water mark of American culture - not so much contemporary jazz, which has become kind of academic, but the jazz from the '20s on through the '70s. ~ Flea
Jazz Inspirational quotes by Flea
Kansas City Lightning succeeds as few biographies of jazz musicians have ... This book is a magnificent achievement; I could hardly put it down. ~ Henry Louis Gates
Jazz Inspirational quotes by Henry Louis Gates
He and I had been talking about jazz (which is to say that he had been talking about jazz, and I had been listening to him talk about jazz, because that is how you talk to a man about jazz)... ~ Elizabeth Gilbert
Jazz Inspirational quotes by Elizabeth Gilbert
When I hear the words jazz pianist, that just means I have the skills to do most things. Because to be a jazz pianist, even to be a bad jazz pianist, you have to be pretty good. ~ Robert Glasper
Jazz Inspirational quotes by Robert Glasper
What has been America's most nurturing contribution to the culture of this planet so far? Many would say jazz. I, who love jazz, will say this instead: Alcoholics Anonymous. ~ Kurt Vonnegut
Jazz Inspirational quotes by Kurt Vonnegut
A jazz musician can improvise based on his knowledge of music. He understands how things go together. For a chef, once you have that basis, that's when cuisine is truly exciting. ~ Charlie Trotter
Jazz Inspirational quotes by Charlie Trotter
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
Jazz Inspirational quotes by Ken Burns
We don't live in a jazz world, unfortunately. I think if I had lived in a jazz world, I would have done OK. I'm not sure I would have done great. I'm a lover of jazz music, so I would have been happy, don't get me wrong. I go to jazz concerts like the biggest jazz fan in world. The drag is that I don't play jazz for a living. ~ George Benson
Jazz Inspirational quotes by George Benson
Jazz music will continue to thrive, possibly in unexpected ways. ~ Pat Metheny
Jazz Inspirational quotes by Pat Metheny
If you truly have expertise - and expertise can be say a chess master who has really mastered something or an artist or a musician of some sort you know if you give a jazz musician ... ~ Sheena Iyengar
Jazz Inspirational quotes by Sheena Iyengar
If income was directly proportional to technical proficiency and education, classical and jazz musicians would be some of the most affluent people in the world. ~ Robert Emerson Coleman
Jazz Inspirational quotes by Robert Emerson Coleman
Jazz does not belong to one race or culture, but is a gift that America has given the world. ~ Ahmad Alaadeen
Jazz Inspirational quotes by Ahmad Alaadeen
Charlie Parker lifted jazz music off the dance floor and into the stratosphere! ~ Joe Lovano
Jazz Inspirational quotes by Joe Lovano
Nothing else will ever capture the democratic process in sound as perfectly as Jazz. ~ Wynton Marsalis
Jazz Inspirational quotes by Wynton Marsalis
One thing I like about jazz, kid, is that I don't know what's going to happen next. Do you? ~ Bix Beiderbecke
Jazz Inspirational quotes by Bix Beiderbecke
I started playing jazz by slowing down Tal Farlow records and analyzing his runs ~ Lenny Breau
Jazz Inspirational quotes by Lenny Breau
What blooms from beautiful seeds of thought becomes a symphony of colorful abundance. ~ Jazz Feylynn
Jazz Inspirational quotes by Jazz Feylynn
Jazz came out of New Orleans, and that was the forerunner of everything. You mix jazz with European rhythms, and that's rock n' roll, really. You can make the argument that it all started on the streets of New Orleans with the jazz funerals. ~ The Edge
Jazz Inspirational quotes by The Edge
What I came back to is that jazz is a music to be played and not to be intellectualized on. ~ Gerry Mulligan
Jazz Inspirational quotes by Gerry Mulligan
I think you have to have a jazz pedigree to be on jazz radio. ~ Rita Coolidge
Jazz Inspirational quotes by Rita Coolidge
But no one, when you stop to think, has ever equated abstract expressionism as a movement with jazz music. It's based on improvisation. The rhythms, the personal involvement, all of this is part of the jazz experience. ~ Romare Bearden
Jazz Inspirational quotes by Romare Bearden
It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands. ~ George Santayana
Jazz Inspirational quotes by George Santayana
I don't want to do free jazz! Because free jazz - which is the musical equivalent of free marketeering - isn't actually free at all. It's just constrained by what your muscles can do. ~ Brian Eno
Jazz Inspirational quotes by Brian Eno
I know jazz is completely un-American. But the reason why America doesn't like it is because it's not funny. We [americans] have made jazz funny. ~ Paul Provenza
Jazz Inspirational quotes by Paul Provenza
Butterflies are but petals upon the sky. ~ Jazz Feylynn
Jazz Inspirational quotes by Jazz Feylynn
It seems to me monstrous that anyone should believe that the jazz rhythm expresses America. Jazz rhythm expresses the primitive savage. ~ Isadora Duncan
Jazz Inspirational quotes by Isadora Duncan
Jazz: Music invented for the torture of imbeciles. ~ Henry Van Dyke
Jazz Inspirational quotes by Henry Van Dyke
Jazz should be recognized as music of the people, based in a lot of accents and melodies. What is jazz but music that people danced to? Jazz has the dynamic thing. I don't think you have to be playing only Charlie Parker licks on your horn or whatever the new version of that is. ~ Al Jarreau
Jazz Inspirational quotes by Al Jarreau
I feel that Jazz improvisation is the ultimate. You have to create on the spot, the essence of this music. ~ Sonny Rollins
Jazz Inspirational quotes by Sonny Rollins
I started to play Jazz music in my early teens. A boyfriend brought records over, so I listened to everything ~ Marian McPartland
Jazz Inspirational quotes by Marian McPartland
A word garden blooming within the tangled weeds. ~ Jazz Feylynn
Jazz Inspirational quotes by Jazz Feylynn
Sometimes when I do a joke and it doesn't get a lot of laughs, it kind of feels like I'm doing jazz. That's kinda cool because jazz is cool, but sometimes jazz sucks ... Maybe I'm the Kenny G of comedy. ~ Mike Birbiglia
Jazz Inspirational quotes by Mike Birbiglia
The stopwatch threat hung over me. I set the timer with shaky clammy fingers. The silent reckoning with the not-so-silent alarm blast at the end of the merciless countdown commenced. ~ Jazz Feylynn
Jazz Inspirational quotes by Jazz Feylynn
Jazz isn't dead. It just smells funny. ~ Frank Zappa
Jazz Inspirational quotes by Frank Zappa
I listen to jazz mainly. Mainstream jazz. ~ Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Jazz Inspirational quotes by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
In Europe, they like everything you do. The mistakes and everything. That's a little bit too much. ~ Miles Davis
Jazz Inspirational quotes by Miles Davis
Coltrane came to New Orleans one day and he was talking about the jazz scene. And Coltrane mentions that the problem with jazz was that there were too few groups. ~ Branford Marsalis
Jazz Inspirational quotes by Branford Marsalis
Under bright scarlet hair, teachers' favorite pigmentation of ink, the awful cast splashed and dripped down his face, a grisly reminder of mistakes bruising that had bruised. ~ Jazz Feylynn
Jazz Inspirational quotes by Jazz Feylynn
There's so much around, you don't know what to listen to. All I've got at home is Bo Diddley, some Stones and Beatles stuff, and old jazz records. ~ Syd Barrett
Jazz Inspirational quotes by Syd Barrett
No dreams. Dreams are a luxury for the privileged. ~ Jazz Singh
Jazz Inspirational quotes by Jazz Singh
I always hated jazz guitar. I loved jazz saxophone but I hated jazz guitar. If I would buy an organ trio record I would make sure I'd buy one that did not have a guitar player on it. The sound was awful! ~ Tom Verlaine
Jazz Inspirational quotes by Tom Verlaine
Change is always happening. That's one of the wonderful things about jazz music. ~ Maynard Ferguson
Jazz Inspirational quotes by Maynard Ferguson
Okay, I know she thinks her little bro stinks but that sounds like she's tracking him by his stench. ~ Jazz Feylynn
Jazz Inspirational quotes by Jazz Feylynn
If I knew what it was going to look like, I wouldnt be so excited to be a part of it. Jazz is a music of surprise; its a music of spontaneity. I think jazz musicians live
I know I do
for being surprised and not knowing whats going to come next. ~ Joshua Redman
Jazz Inspirational quotes by Joshua Redman
No dictatorship has ever approved of jazz. ~ Philipp Blom
Jazz Inspirational quotes by Philipp Blom
Jazz to me is a living music. ~ Dexter Gordon
Jazz Inspirational quotes by Dexter Gordon
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