#jaz

Sometimes you need to stand with your nose to the window and have a good look at jazz. And I've done that on many occasions. ↗

— J. J. Johnson

#good #i #jazz #look #many

Free form jazz means absolutely nothing to me. Because there are no boundaries. ↗

— Jon Lord

#absolutely nothing #because #boundaries #form #free

I have to plead basic ignorance of most new jazz artists here. ↗

— Gary Lucas

#basic #here #i #ignorance #jazz

Jazz has been such a force in music, that any musician, including classical composers, have been influenced, and obviously performers, also. ↗

— Yo-Yo Ma

#any #been #classical #classical composers #composers

It's something that jazz has gotten away from, and it's unfortunate. Players aren't physical anymore. ↗

— Branford Marsalis

#away #gotten #jazz #physical #players

That's kind of like how jazz is sometimes. You're out there predicting the future, and no one believes you. ↗

— Branford Marsalis

#future #how #jazz #kind #like

I give bird songs to those who dwell in cities and have never heard them, make rhythms for those who know only military marches or jazz, and paint colors for those who see none. ↗

— Olivier Messiaen

#cities #colors #dwell #give #heard

Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you that music has boundaries. But, man, there's no boundary line to art. ↗

— Charlie Parker

#art

It has been difficult to hold onto many paintings but I have retained a few. Possibly the current favorite is titled 'Big Band' completed in 2005. It measures 13 feet x 9 feet. It has 18 nearly life size recognizable portraits of the biggest jazz stars that I knew and saw perform in the 1950s, '60s, '70s, '80s and includes Wynton Marsalis. ↗

— LeRoy Neiman

#been #big #big band #biggest #completed

My brother Leon started it all. He played the piano. In school they made me leader of the orchestra because I played the violin, but I followed Leon and the boys in his jazz band around. ↗

— Louis Prima

#band #because #brother #followed #his