Jazz And Life Quotes

Music is enough for a lifetime - but a lifetime is not enough for music.

Each man has his own music bubbling up inside him.

All a musician can do is to get closer to the source.

You are the music while the music lasts.

For me, music and life are all about style.

Conductors must give unmistakable and suggestive signals to the orchestra, not choreography to the audience.

Jazz is the continual pulsation of the now.

A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

Jazz is the type of music that can absorb so many things and still be jazz.

Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom.

In my music, I'm trying to play the truth of what I am.

...to me if it's anything, jazz is a verb-it's more like a process than it is a thing.

I compulsively reach for perfection in music, often at the expense of everything else in my life.