Jazz Is

Saw this today. Nice.
Jazz is the only music in which the same note can be played night after night but differently each time. – Ornette Coleman
Jazz is the type of music that can absorb so many things and still be jazz. – Sonny Rollins
Jazz is there and gone. It happens. You have to be present for it. That simple. – Keith Jarrett
Jazz to me is a living music. – Dexter Gordon
Jazz today, as always in the past, is a matter of thoughtful creation, not mere unaided instinct. – Duke Ellington
Jazz was not only built in the minds of the great ones, but on the backs of the ordinary ones. – Cab Calloway
Jazz washes away the dust of everyday life. – Art Blakey
Jazz will endure just as long people hear it through their feet instead of their brains. – John Philip Sousa
Knowledge speaks but wisdom listens. – Jimi Hendrix
Let there be bass. – Leo Fender
Life is a lot like jazz, it’s best when you improvise. – George Gershwin