"Women and rhythm-section first!"
Jaco Pastorius

"I never had much interest in the piano until I realized that every time I played, a girl would appear on the piano bench to my left and another to my right."
Duke Ellington

"Where words fail, music speaks."
Hans Christian Anderson

"Let my children have music! Let them hear live music. Not noise. My children! You do what you want with your own!"
Charles Mingus

"Don’t bullshit… just play."
Wynton Marsalis

"Don’t threaten me with love, baby. Let’s just go walking in the rain."
Billie Holliday

"Hot can be cool, and cool can be hot, and each can be both. But hot or cool, man, jazz is jazz."
Louis Armstrong

"Jazz is the only music in which the same note can be played night after night but differently each time."
Ornette Coleman

"Opinions are like assholes... everyone’s got one."
Art Blakey

"This is so nice, it must be illegal."
Fats Waller

"When the music changes, so does the dance."
African proverb

"One thing I like about jazz, kid, is that I don't know what's going to happen next. Do you?"
Bix Beiderbecke

"Jazz is freedom. You think about that."
Thelonius Monk