The blues and jazz will live forever... So will the Delta and the Big Easy.
Jack Nicholson

Though the Jazz Age continued it became less and less an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children's party taken over by the elders.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

My music isn't anything but me. It has jazz in it, and rock'n'roll, and it has an urgency to it.
Neil Young

Eclecticism is the word. Like a jazz musician who creates his own style out of the styles around him, I play by ear.
Ralph Ellison

I can turn on some jazz guitarist, and he won't do a thing for me, if he's not playing electrically. But Jeff Beck's great to listen to.
Ritchie Blackmore

I listen to jazz mainly. Mainstream jazz.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

You need better technique than I have to play jazz, but what you have to do is the same thing, isn't it?
Charlie Watts

That's the thing about jazz: it's free flowing, it comes from your soul.
Billy Crystal

Jazz is rhythm and meaning.
Henri Matisse

I understood jazz, I understood how it worked. That's what I apply to everything.
Van Morrison

The point of jazz is, you do something and then you go on.
Van Morrison

If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know.
Louis Armstrong

The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician.
Louis Armstrong

What makes my approach special is that I do different things. I do jazz, blues, country music and so forth. I do them all, like a good utility man.
Ray Charles

It seems to me monstrous that anyone should believe that the jazz rhythm expresses America. Jazz rhythm expresses the primitive savage.
Isadora Duncan

The thing to judge in any jazz artist is, does the man project and does he have ideas.
Miles Davis

I'm not a big jazz fan.
Warren Zevon

I missed jazz, kind of. And by the time I came to it in life, it was too intimidating to enjoy thoroughly.
Warren Zevon

And I played in jazz band as well during all three years in school.
Travis Barker