All a musician can do is to get closer to the sources of nature, and so feel that he is in communion with the natural laws.
John Coltrane
Life is a lot like jazz... it's best when you improvise.
George Gershwin
Jazz is the only music in which the same note can be played night after night but differently each time.
Ornette Coleman
Jazz is a very democratic musical form. It comes out of a communal experience. We take our respective instruments and collectively create a thing of beauty.
Max Roach
Jazz is about being in the moment.
Herbie Hancock
Music washes away the dust of every day life.
Art Blakey
Anybody can play. The note is only 20%. The attitude of the mother****er who plays it is 80%.
Miles Davis
