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