A name doesn't make the music. It's just called that to differentiate it from other types of music.

Jazz washes away the dust of every day life.

Music is supposed to wash away the dust of everyday life

So go on and play, and if you make a mistake, make it loud so you won't make it next time.

Jazz, I mean, music will always move, because it can't become stagnant. Because if it becomes stagnant, it's like a river, it'll kill us all. It has to keep moving, music will always flow.

It takes an intelligent ear to listen to Jazz.

If you feel like tapping your feet, tap your feet.

That.s what Jazz music is all about.We started the Messengers because somebody had to mind the store for jazz.No America--no Jazz. It is the only culture that America has brought forth.

All you have to do is be able to feel.

They say that Jazz is back, and I don't think it's gone anywhere. But they say it's back.

What ever truth drops on it eventually grinds to a powder.

You shouldn't do that, " said Laura. "You could set yourself on fire.

Most people treat the news media like the exercise bike they have in their basement. They're glad it's there but they never use it.

The language of art is celestial in origin and can only be understood by the chosen.

I will never again attempt to tell any young person what to do - the really gifted don't need advice and the others can't take it.

May the God of your choice bless you.

I'm more authoritarian with the orchestras than I used to be. You need to hold your ground, I've noticed, or you'll be swept aside.

Trump's junk economics is the illusion that if we cut the taxes on the wealthiest brackets, it'll all trickle down. But it doesn't trickle down.

You can not achieve an aim unless you have a method.

It was like making a blunder at a party; there was nothing to do about it, it was dreadfully mortifying, but it showed a lack of sense to ascribe too much importance to it.

I just need some time to get over all those years of having liked him