"If someone has been escaping reality, I don’t expect him to dig my music." - #CharlesMingus #jazz

"I never practice my #guitar... from time to time I just open the case and throw in a piece of raw meat." - #WesMontgomery #jazz

"If they act too #hip, you know they can't play shit!" - #MilesDavis #jazz

"I've been singing this crap since I was 16!" - #MichaelBuble #jazz

"Maybe the preoccupation with technological progress has overshadowed our concern with human progress." - #WyntonMarsalis #technology #jazz

Jazz quotes from #TromboneShorty and #HarryConnickJr have now been added to the 'Featured Cats' on the JazzQuotations.com web site. Enjoy!

"I'm always hoping for the nights that are inspired where you almost have an out of body experience." - #DaveBrubeck #jazz

After you've done all the work and prepared as much as you can, what the hell, you might as well go out and have a good time. #BennyGoodman

#ArtPepper, #BennyCarter, and #MichaelBuble have now joined the 'Featured Cats' on the JazzQuotations.com web site. Enjoy! #jazz

"It takes an intelligent ear to listen to #Jazz." - #ArtBlakey

"The wise musicians are those who play what they can master." - #DukeEllington #jazz

"As long as you've got your horn in your mouth, you're developing." - Zoot Sims #jazz #saxophone #sax

"#Life is a lot like #jazz... it's best when you improvise." - George Gershwin

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"A working man have the power to play hot, #whiskey or no whiskey." - Johnny St. Cyr #jazz

"I quit #drinking, so I can think clear. When you have chop trouble, drinking doesn't help the healing process." - #FreddieHubbard #jazz

"Without a #piano I don't know how to stand, don't know what to do with my hands." - #NorahJones

"My father bought me one, and I studied the #trumpet. And everybody I heard that I liked, I picked up things from." - #MilesDavis

#DjangoReinhardt was quite superhuman, There's nothing normal about him as a person or a player." - #JeffBeck #guitar

#StanleyClarke Trio Music Video @ http://www.jazzquotations.com/2010/06/stanley-clarke-trio-jazz-in-garden-epk.html