Playing Jazz Quotes

Jazz music is an intensified feeling of nonchalance.

Playing 'bop' is like playing Scrabble with all the vowels missing.

The reward for playing jazz is playing jazz.

Jazz is very much alive. Everywhere I go there's a new generation of musicians playing Jazz music.

Who knows ... we'll be playing Jazz and having a good time!

Jazz is what I play for a living.

I got into playing the jazz. I played jazz for a good while. I did the popular stuff first. You got the "Twelfth Street Rag" and those kinds of things. Then I got to hanging around with a bunch of guys starting to playing jazz. We'd go from one place to the other and take our instruments, just perform for free.

I started playing jazz by slowing down Tal Farlow records and analyzing his runs

I hate Stanley Clark, but I have to admit he's playing Jazz whether I like it or not.

I started off with classical music, and I got into jazz when I was about 14 years old. And I've been playing jazz ever since.

Growing up playing jazz and improvising has had a big impact on me, and it translates into my music.