Jazz: Music invented for the torture of imbeciles.
Bop is no love-child of jazz.
As far as music school goes, I walked through Berkelee one time.
Jazz is a democratic musical form. We take our respective instruments & collectively create a thing of beauty.
I knew even if I'm a cowboy, I'm going to be involved in jazz in some way.
The more real you get, the more unreal everything else is.
I have a secret love of jazz.
Montreal was a very active jazz center until club owners started putting in strippers instead of music. Before long, there was nothing to hear.
Rather than say I play Jazz, I simply say I play music.
You have to know composition to be a good improviser.
Trouble follows me wherever I go. Thing I'm in is just a sack o'woe.
Dave's playing and repertoire evokes memories of the golden era of Modern Jazz, and in addition to being a nice guy he happens to be a bebopper of the finest order.
Jazz is known all over the world as an American musical art form and that's it. No America, no jazz. I've seen people try to connect it to other countries, for instance to Africa, but it doesn't have a damn thing to do with Africa.
And I played in jazz band as well during all three years in school.
What kills me is that everybody thinks I like Jazz.
In the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra we play such a diversity of music, with 10 arrangers in the band, we don't really worry about whether it's contemporary or not.
Lately I've been listening to some classical music again, some jazz.
Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous, you don't want it.
Music is a gift and a burden I've had since I can remember who I was.
Blow your life through your horn.