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Jazz Quotes. If it hadn't been for Jazz, there wouldn't be no rock and roll. Louis Armstrong If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know. Louis Armstrong Jazz is the folk music of the machine age. Paul Whiteman A jazz musician is a juggler who uses harmonies instead of oranges. Benny Green Jazz tickles your muscles, symphonies stretch your soul. Paul Whiteman Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains. Paul Whiteman Jazz is not dead - it just smells funny. Frank Zappa By and large, jazz has always been like the kind of a man you wouldn't want your daughter to associate with. Duke Ellington Jazz is the music of the body. Anais Nin It seems to me monstrous that anyone should believe that the jazz rhythm expresses America. Jazz rhythm expresses the primitive savage. Isadora Duncan Playing 'bop' is like playing Scrabble with all the vowels missing. Duke Ellington Some kids in Italy call me 'Mama Jazz; I thought that was so cute. As long as they don't call me 'Grandma Jazz. Ella Fitzgerald There is no accounting for jazz singers, that is to say, singers who suffer from the dangerous delusion that they are jazz singers. Benny Green If ya ain't got it in ya, ya can't blow it out. Louis Armstrong |