#jazzquotes

[hancockinstitute]

"Love baby, love. That's the secret, yeah. If lots more of us loved each other, we'd solve lots more problems. And then this world would be a gasser. That's wha' ol' Pops keeps saying..." —Louis Armstrong

[projazznet]

“And that's the soulful thing about playing: you offer something to somebody. You don't know if they'll like it, but you offer it.” ― Wynton Marsalis, To a Young Jazz Musician: Letters from the Road

Photo by Elkrokoyade via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0

[pistakkiomusic]

What or who taught me to love jazz? It was the irony, the irony of who never explained to me what was all about!

Pistakkio Music

[hancockinstitute]

“Jazz music is a language of the emotions.”

— Charles Mingus

[hancockinstitute]

Jazz is music made by and for people who have chosen to feel good in spite of conditions.

—Johnny Griffin

[projazznet]

At least one day out of the year, all musicians should just put their instruments down and give thanks to Duke Ellington.

~ Miles Davis

Photo: Miles Davis by JP Roche, CC-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons

[projazznet]

I stole everything that I heard, but mostly I stole from the horns.

~ Ella Fitzgerald

[hancockinstitute]

“You call it jazz. For me, it is just music. It is different for different people.” —John Coltrane