Top 32 Mind Jazz Quotes
#1. Jazz was not only built in the minds of the great ones, but on the backs of the ordinary ones.
Cab Calloway
#2. Jazz is more than music, it's a state of mind. Hot, cool or in between; we take those outward expressions and transpose them into our inner-most thoughts. We let our instruments do our bidding.
J.A. Rollins
#3. 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.
Art Blakey
#4. Acting is also working with people who invite you into their dreams and trust you with their innermost being.
Catherine Deneuve
#5. Look, Chief, you can't go off half-cocked looking for vengeance against a fish. That shark isn't evil. It's not a murderer. It's just obeying its own instincts. Trying to get retribution against a fish is crazy.
Peter Benchley
#6. A portrait of the young Charlie Parker with a degree of vivid detail never before approached ... [Kansas City Lightning is] a deft, virtuosic panorama of early jazz ... This is a mind-opening, and mind-filling, book.
Tom Piazza
#7. How is it having more control if there are young people stifled the opportunities that we had?
Sadiq Khan
#8. Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
Mike Binder
#9. Jazz felt as though his own life was a mindfield, one he'd lost the map for. One wrong step and he'd lose a foot or leg. or his mind.
Barry Lyga
#10. Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything that occurs out of necessity, everything expected, repeated day in and day out, is mute. Only chance can speak to us.
Milan Kundera
#12. A church without a gospel-centered purpose is no longer a church at all.
Thom S. Rainer
#13. Some people are naturally thin and some people are naturally heavier. It doesn't mean that bigger is healthier, or much thinner is healthier, it's on an individual basis.
Geri Halliwell
#14. I've gotten bored with jazz to the point where I wouldn't mind something bad happening. Slapping hurts, but at some point it'll wake you up. I feel like jazz needs a big-ass slap.
Robert Glasper
#15. I've got a lot of years to live after baseball and I would like to live them with the complete use of my body.
Sandy Koufax
#16. The first thing I wanted to do, as a boy, was to be a skier, because I had seen film footage of somebody skiing.
Kenneth Cranham
#17. I don't mind being classified as a jazz artist, but I do mind being restricted to being a jazz artist. My foundation has been in jazz, though I didn't really start out that way. I started in classical music, but my formative years were in jazz, and it makes a great foundation.
Herbie Hancock
#18. Many people forget that Jazz, no matter what form it takes, must come from the heart as well as the mind.
Mary Lou Williams
#19. Now listen for your song. Everybody's got a song. When I used to chase the Trane - John Coltrane that is - he used to tell me, 'If I know a man's sound, I know the man.' Do you hear the melody playing in your mind? Does it move you, nudge you off your seat?
David Mutti Clark
#20. I assumed this yoke would encase me as well as any another hobble. Only this one bound the mind.
Jazz Feylynn
#21. You cats mind if I make it a trio?' he asked me, and it was not a huge surprise that a dude of his appearance was speaking in Jazz Voice.
Jesse Andrews
#22. She realized, when relationships failed to last, it was not because love was no longer present, but because people had stopped believing in themselves and in their partners.
Christina Westover
#23. You ask: What is it that philosophers have called qualitative states? I answer, only half in jest: As Louis Armstrong said when asked what jazz is, 'If you got to ask, you ain't never gonna get to know.'
Ned Block
#24. I always had this childhood image in the back of my mind of this fantastic place where all the things I liked came from; Orson Welles, jazz, all that stuff. Los Angeles is one of those places where somebodies become nobodies and nobodies become somebody.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#25. Footballers can be like artists when the mind and body are working as one. It is what Miles Davis does when he plays free jazz - everything pulls together into one intense moment that is beautiful.
Lilian Thuram
#26. I felt quite frankly having been raised during the depression and looking back at the roaring twenties, the jazz age, which was a very magic timer in my mind because it was something that I had missed.
Hugh Hefner
#27. The music I like best is kind of frozen in my mind from the Sixties and Seventies. I still listen to the same jazz music I listened to when I was eighteen years old, and like and admire it just as much.
Don DeLillo
#29. Lately, my mind is like an orchestra. If you don't have the conductor, you don't know what to do. One guy is playing jazz, one guy is playing rock and roll, another classical. It's a big mess.
Goran Ivanisevic
#30. Milton, of all people, gave the most perfect definition of the state of mind required to play jazz: ' with wanton heed and giddy cunning.' That's how you play jazz.
Paul Desmond
#31. One thing that sticks in my mind is that jazz means freedom and openness. It's a music that, although it developed out of the African American experience, speaks more about the human experience than the experience of a particular people.
Herbie Hancock
#32. From death shall they awake who cross the water to the Shadow Isle
Ricardo Pinto
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