Jazz Quotes

"If it sounds good, it is good."

Duke Ellington

"If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know."

Louis Armstrong

"If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn."

Charlie Parker

"Don't play what's there, play what's not there."

Miles Davis

"What we play is life."

Louis Armstrong

"The piano ain't got no wrong notes."

Thelonious Monk

"It's taken me all my life to learn what not to play."

Dizzy Gillespie

"The real power of jazz is that a group of people can come together and create improvised art and negotiate their agendas with each other."

Wynton Marsalis

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

George Gershwin

“If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know.”

Louis Armstrong

“Do not fear mistakes. There are none.”

Miles Davis

“It's not the notes you play, it's the notes you don't play.”

Miles Davis

“Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.”

Miles Davis

“Life is a lot like jazz; it's best when you improvise.”

George Gershwin