“Jazz voices that unvanquishable, natural will toward creaativity and self-expression, depite everything, in the here and now.” SelfVoiceNaturalMusicExpressionJazzHere And NowSelf Expression Author:Stephanie Mills
“My short answer would be that there is no greatest jazz musician of the century. Jazz, like any valid art form, finds its greatness in its expression of the human spirit, and, to me, this can’t be reduced to a contest.” HumansArtWould BeFormSpiritAnswersCenturyGreatnessExpressionMusicianJazzContestsHuman SpiritJazz MusicJazz Musician Author:Bennie Wallace
“jazz is the expression of America's romantic self, its sensual potency, its lyrical force.” SelfAmericaForceMusicExpressionJazzSensualLyricalPotency Author:Anais Nin
“Improvisation was the blood and bone of jazz, and in the classic, New Orleans jazz it was collective improvisation in which each performer, seemingly going his own melodic way, played in harmony, dissonance, or counterpoint with the improvisations of his colleagues. Quite unlike ragtime, which was written down in many cases by its composers and could be repeated note for note (if not expression for expression) by others, jazz was a performer's not a composer's art.” IfsWayArtCasesWrittenBloodExpressionHarmonyJazzNotesBonesClassicCollectivesPerformersComposerColleaguesNew OrleansImprovisationDissonanceRagtime Author:Russell Lynes
“Today I believe that man cannot escape his destiny to create whatever it is we make - jazz, a wooden spoon, or graffiti on the wall. All of these are expressions of man's creativity, proof that man has not yet been destroyed by technology. But are we making things for the people of our epoch or repeating what has been done before? And finally, is the question itself important? We must ask ourselves that. The most important thing is always to doubt the importance of the question.” PeopleMenBelieveHas BeensImportantDoneTodayAsksI BelieveCreativityDestinyTechnologyDoubtExpressionWallImportanceImportant ThingsJazzProofDestroyedSpoonsEpochGraffitiWooden Spoons Author:Orson Welles
“Jazz vision is a wordless conversation between musical notes and visual expressions.” VisionExpressionConversationJazzNotesMusicalVisualsMusical Notes Author:Barbara Januszkiewicz
“Jazz vision for me is seeing my art in musical term. It offers me an visual expressions in an ever-changing musical palette.” ArtTermVisionSeeingExpressionOffersJazzMusicalVisualsPalette Author:Barbara Januszkiewicz
“I have I guess 3 passions. One is the Constitution. The other is jazz and the other is being an atheist prolifer which, of course, gets me in a lot of trouble - all of which combines into free expression.” PassionCoursesTroubleExpressionConstitutionJazzAtheistFree Expression Author:Nat Hentoff