There's the tradition in jazz of having the Battle of the Bands, and you do not want to get your head cut when you're playing.
Wynton Marsalis
People have taken time out of their day and spent their money to come sit down at a concert. And it's jazz music-it's not easy for them to get to it. I don't want them ever to feel that I'm taking their presence lightly.
Wynton Marsalis
Though the Jazz Age continued it became less and less an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children's party taken over by the elders.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Gospel music rhythms are not African in origin, although I know that's what the jazz experts say.
Mahalia Jackson
I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract Expressionism.
Don DeLillo
Jazz is rhythm and meaning.
Henri Matisse
One thing about playing the real jazz is that you can't count it.
Mahalia Jackson
Writing is a question of finding a certain rhythm. I compare it to the rhythms of jazz. Much of the time life is a sort of rhythmic progression of three characters. If one tells oneself that life is like that, one feels it less arbitrary.
Francoise Sagan