- Bobby McFerrin – “The true musician is to bring light into people’s hearts.”
- Charles Mingus – “Good Jazz is when the leader jumps on the piano, waves his arms & yells. Fine Jazz is when a tenorman lifts his foot in the air. Great Jazz is when he heaves a piercing note for 32 bars & collapses on his hands & knees. A pure genius of Jazz is manifested when he & the rest of the orchestra runaround the room while the rhythm section grimaces & dances around their instruments.”
- Charles Mingus – “Jazz music is a language of the emotions.”
- Charlie Byrd – “The guitar chose me.”
- Charlie Parker – “Don’t play the saxophone. Let it play you.
- Charlie Parker – “The time is now.”
- Clark Terry – “Your sound is you & what you really feel inside.”
- Coleman Hawkins – “Music should always be an adventure.”
- Count Basie – “If you find a note tonight that sounds good, play the same damn note every night!”
- Count Basie – “If you play a tune & a person don’t tap their feet, don’t play the tune.”
- D C DowDell – “If your dreams don’t scare you they’re not big enough!”
- D C DowDell – “Jazz goes into my coffee in the morning, in my wine at night.
- D C DowDell – “Music is what feelings sound like.”
- Dizzy Gillespie – “It’s taken me all my life to learn what not to play.”
- Don Cherry – “Jazz is an art that makes a person completely naked.”
- Herbie Hancock – “Jazz is about being in the moment.”
- Jimi Hendrix – “All I play is truth & emotion.”
- Joe Pass – “If you hit a wrong note, then make it right by what you play afterward.”
- Joe Sample – “I love to hear the note sing.”
- Joe Williams – “You can’t rehearse a blues darlin’.”
- John Cage – “I can’t understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I’m frightened of the old ones.”
- John Coltrane – “All a musician can do is to get closer to the source.
- John Coltrane – “I start in the middle of a sentence & move both directions at once.”
- John Coltrane – “The emotional reaction is all that matters
- John Coltrane – “The first time I heard Bird play, it hit me right between the eyes.”
- Louis Armstrong – “You blows who you is.”
- Miles Davis – “Do not fear mistakes, there are none.”
- Miles Davis – “Don’t worry about playing a lot of notes. Just find one pretty one.”
- Miles Davis – “Music & life are all about style.”
- Miles Davis – “Stop before you’re done.”
- Roy Hargrove – “Let the music speak for itself.”
- Salvador Dali – “Have no fear of perfection. You’ll never reach it.”
- Sonny Rollins – “Jazz is the type of music that can absorb so many things & still be Jazz.”
- Stan Getz – “I cannot play a lie. I have to believe in what I play or it won’t come out.”
- Steve Lacy – “I still love the whole history of Jazz. The old things sound better than ever.”
- Wes Montgomery – “I never practice my guitar. From time to time I just open the case & throw in a piece of raw meat.”
- Wes Montgomery – “Regardless of what you play, the biggest thing is keeping the feel going.”
- Wynton Marsalis – “Jazz music is the power of now.”
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