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

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 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

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

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

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

Jazz is rhythm and meaning.
Henri Matisse

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

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

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

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

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

One thing about playing the real jazz is that you can't count it.
Mahalia Jackson

Gospel music rhythms are not African in origin, although I know that's what the jazz experts say.
Mahalia Jackson

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

If it comes out sounding like Dixieland jazz or classical or punk or rock or even slightly metal, that's because that's where I'm going to find inspiration.
Ben Harper