Cool Jazz Quotes:

Life is a lot like jazz. It's best when you improvise.

- George Gershwin

source: "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

topic: Music, Jazz Hands, Cool Jazz, Jazz And Blues, Jazz And Life

Jazz is smooth and cool. Jazz is rage. Jazz flows like water. Jazz never seems to begin or end. Jazz isn't methodical, but jazz isn't messy either. Jazz is a conversation, a give and take. Jazz is the connection and communication between musicians. Jazz is abandon.

- Nat Wolff

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Communication, Giving, Water, Jazz Age, Music Life

It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing.

- Duke Ellington

source: 1965 Of trumpeter Bubber Miley.'The Most Essential Instrument', in Jazz Journal, Dec.

topic: Music, Mean, Swings, Jazz And Life, Cool Jazz

Growing up, I'd already decided I wanted to be a beatnik. A Bohemian poet, I thought. Or a musician. Maybe an artist. I'd dress in black turtlenecks and smoke Gitanes. I'd listen to cool jazz in clubs, getting up to read devastating truths from my notebook, leaning against the microphone, cigarette dangling from my hand.

- Charles de Lint

topic: Notebook, Growing Up, Artist, Beatnik, Turtlenecks

Most of what I listen to now is mainstream jazz from 1935 right up to and including early bebop and cool jazz.

- Dave Van Ronk

topic: Heart, Bebop, Jazz, Cool Jazz

I suppose it was later on that I realized that there was some reaction among the musicians themselves, some of whom resented the success of cool jazz in California, and that broke down into the white guys against the hard-blowing black guys in New York.

- Ashley Kahn

topic: New York, California, White, White Guys, Cool Jazz

the beauty of America, neither cool jazz nor devoured Egyptian heroes, lies in lives in the darkness I inhabit in the midst of sterile millions

- Frank O'Hara

topic: Beauty, Lying, Hero, Cool Jazz