The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician.
Louis Armstrong
It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands.
George Santayana
One thing about playing the real jazz is that you can't count it.
Mahalia Jackson
Jazz music is an intensified feeling of nonchalance.
Francoise Sagan
Gospel music rhythms are not African in origin, although I know that's what the jazz experts say.
Mahalia Jackson
Jazz is rhythm and meaning.
Henri Matisse
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
If it comes out sounding like Dixieland jazz or classical or punk or rock or even slightly metal, that's because that's where I'm going to find inspiration.
Ben Harper