Quotes by Playing Jazz Who knows ... we'll be playing Jazz and having a good time! Art Blakey playing-jazz having-a-good-time good-times Playing 'bop' is like playing Scrabble with all the vowels missing. Duke Ellington playing-jazz music missing-you Jazz music is an intensified feeling of nonchalance. Francoise Sagan nonchalance playing-jazz feelings 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. Herbie Hancock playing-jazz jazz years The reward for playing jazz is playing jazz. John Lewis playing-jazz rewards music I started playing jazz by slowing down Tal Farlow records and analyzing his runs Lenny Breau playing-jazz music running I hate Stanley Clark, but I have to admit he's playing Jazz whether I like it or not. Lester Bangs playing-jazz stanley hate Jazz is what I play for a living. Louis Armstrong playing-jazz jazz play 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. Papa John Creach playing-jazz rags guy Growing up playing jazz and improvising has had a big impact on me, and it translates into my music. Stephen Bruner playing-jazz impact growing-up Jazz is very much alive. Everywhere I go there's a new generation of musicians playing Jazz music. Toots Thielemans playing-jazz music alive