“The hardest thing for a musician to learn is how to play WITH people. That's what made the Basie rhythm section.” Quote by Jo Jones
“If you're going to make a mistake, make it loud so everybody else sounds wrong.” IfsSoundMistakeMusicJazzMusicalLoud Author:Giuseppe Venuti
“Sometimes I wish I could walk up to my music as if for the first time, as if I had never heard it before. Being so inescapably a part of it, I'll never know what the listener gets, what the listener feels, and that's too bad.” IfsKnowsFeelsFirstsSometimesWishWalksMusicHeardFirst TimeJazzMusicalListenersJazz Music Author:John Coltrane
“Women must tell men always that they are the strong ones. They are the big, the strong, the wonderful. In truth, women are the strong ones. It is just my opinion, I am not a professor.” MenBigsStrongWomenOpinionWonderfulProfessorsStrong WomenWonderful Woman Author:Coco Chanel
“When you begin to see the possibilities of music, you desire to do something really good for people.” PeopleDesireMusicPossibilityMusicianJazzMusicalJazz Musician Author:John Coltrane
“The life of the arts is far from an interruption, a distraction, in the life of a nation, is close to the center of a nation's purpose-and is a test of the quality of a nations' civilization.” ArtPurposeNationsQualityMusicCivilizationArt IsTestsJazzMusicalDistractionInterruptionsNotes Music Author:John F. Kennedy
“A little bit if listening with a passable ear will get an awful lot of messages anywhere.” IfsLittlesBitsMusicListeningLittle BitMessagesEarsJazzMusicalAwful Author:John Hendricks
“Sam Phillips always encouraged me to do it my way, to use whatever other influences I wanted, but never to copy...if there hadn't been a Sam Phillips, I might still be working in a cotton field.” IfsWayStillsUseMightWantedMusicInfluenceFieldsJazzMusicalMy WayCopiesCottonCotton Fields Author:Johnny Cash
“Jazz is music made by and for people who have chosen to feel good in spite of conditions.” PeopleFeelsMadeMusicConditionsJazzMusicalChosenFeel GoodSpiteJazz Music Author:Johnny Griffin
“Jazz is an art form that depends on its antecedents, there must be respect for the people that have gone before.” PeopleArtFormMusicGoneDependsJazzMusical Author:Jon Hendricks