The more you listen, the more your hear.
Jazz – it takes passion to make it happen!
Jazz has evolved with an inner necessity characteristic of any true art form.
Practice as if you are the worst, play as if you are the best!
The jazziest American contribution to the vocabulary of English is Jazz itself.
Jazz music has always made powerful statements about freedom, creativity and personal identity.
While many forms of music may use the dynamic of improvisation, Jazz exemplifies the unique characteristic of collective improvisation.
Jazz affirms the noblest aspirations of character, individual discipline, perseverance and innovation.
Ideologies separate us. Art brings us together.
If the bass plays the root, a pianist superimposes a Maj7 built on the 5th and the sax plays the 13th, will hot women notice?
It is better to be felt than to be heard.
If your dreams don’t scare you they’re not big enough!
10% of musicians make 90% of the money, while the remaining 90% of musicians make the 10% that’s left.
The true value of this music lies in an artist’s individual creativity and that unique process of expression which is Jazz.
It’s spontaneity that has always characterized Jazz music’s finest improvisers.
If you are not doing what you love, you are wasting your time!
My neighbors always listen to very hip Jazz… whether they like it or not.
Music is a calling that you must bring your best to, whether listening, practicing or performing.
Spontaneously composed music is a counterpoint that has its own rules based on a natural order and intuitive logic.
Miles Davis and John Coltrane were so cool, if alive today global warming wouldn’t be an issue.
Jazz goes into my coffee in the morning, in my wine at night.
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