#jazz

Some musicians play blues, others classical jazz or bluegrass. I like to play political roles because I can merge my political interests with my creative interests. ↗

— Jeffrey Wright

#bluegrass #blues #classical #creative #i

T was in a blue mood , his open reflections on the isloation of his life floating like Jazz notes under a "pink moon ↗

— Saira Viola

#jazz #melanchloy #life

Sans le jazz, la vie serait une erreur ↗

— Boris Vian

#life #music #life

Life is a lot like jazz - it's best when you improvise. ↗

— George Gershwin

#jazz #life #music #inspirational

I don't get jazz. It always sounds like a bunch of toddlers let loose in a music room. ↗

— Libba Bray

#music

I enjoy playing clubs. I still enjoy the closeness of the nightclub venue. However, after a certain period of time and after playing around some of the clubs in New YorkI felt that jazz should be presented in a more prestigious atmosphere. ↗

— Sonny Rollins

#around #atmosphere #certain #closeness #clubs

In jazz, you listen to what the bass player is doing and what the drummer is doing, what the pianist and the guitarist is doing, and then you play something that compliments that, so you are thinking simultaneously and thinking ahead. ↗

— David Amram

#bass #bass player #compliments #doing #drummer

Here in England we live at a slower pace, have more time to enjoy things - like good jazz. ↗

— Chris Barber

#enjoy #good #here #jazz #like

Jazz of the sort we play is a happy, extroverted music. You don't have to think about it too much. ↗

— Chris Barber

#extroverted #happy #jazz #much #music

My primary influences were the best jazz players from the 50's and 60's and later some of the pop people from the same time period along with the better of the well known blues musicians. ↗

— Walter Becker

#best #better #blues #influences #jazz