Jazz Quotes – Music Quotes – Quotes – Famous Quotes

Jazz Quotes – Music Quotes – Quotes – Famous Quotes

Jazz is not dead – it just smells funny.
- Frank Zappa

Jazz tickles your muscles, symphonies stretch your soul
- Paul Whiteman

If it has more than three chords, it’s jazz.
- Lou Reed

Jazz music is an intensified feeling of nonchalance.
- Francoise Sagan

The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician. Things like old folks singing in the moonlight in the back yard on a hot night or something said long ago.”
- Louis Armstrong
 
Jazz is the only music in which the same note can be played night after night but differently each time.
- Ornette Coleman
 
Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.
- Paul Whiteman

Though the Jazz Age continued, it became less and less of an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children’s party taken over by the elders.
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
 
A jazz musician is a juggler who uses harmonies instead of oranges.
- Benny Green