#jazz

My first guitar, a Fender Jazz Master, I traded it in for a Les Paul Deluxe. ↗

— Lenny Kravitz

#fender #first #guitar #i #jazz

I didn't plan on rock-n-roll. I wanted to learn jazz; I got to know some people doing rock-n-roll with jazz, and I thought I could make some money playing music. ↗

— Robby Krieger

#doing #got #i #jazz #know

Well, being a jazz musician is not a rose garden! ↗

— Toots Thielemans

#garden #jazz #jazz musician #musician #rose

Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains. ↗

— Paul Whiteman

#america #came #chains #hundred #jazz

Jazz is the folk music of the machine age. ↗

— Paul Whiteman

#folk #folk music #jazz #machine #machine age

Jazz tickles your muscles, symphonies stretch your soul. ↗

— Paul Whiteman

#muscles #soul #stretch #symphonies #your

Miles Davis was doing something inherently African, something that has to do with all forms of American music, not just jazz. ↗

— Cassandra Wilson

#american #american music #davis #doing #forms

Jazz is the last refuge of the untalented. Jazz musicians enjoy themselves more than anyone listening to them does. ↗

— Tony Wilson

#does #enjoy #jazz #jazz musicians #last

I'm not a big jazz fan. ↗

— Warren Zevon

#fan #i #jazz

I've often cringed when I heard myself described as a jazz singer. I've always thought of myself as a jazz vocalist. ↗

— Cassandra Wilson

#described #heard #i #jazz #jazz singer