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Quotes About Jazzmen

Hundred-and-twenty-six street on a Tuesday morning long-time-no-see "Hi ya, Monk" "Fump, my man!" camera guy's sweeping jazzmen like bundles toward number 17 they don't notice too busy with how you been...
~ Roxane Orgill
Most of us lead or are led by lives of patterned regularity. Diurnally, surprises are relatively few. And except for economic or physical uncertainties, we neither face nor court significant degrees of risk because a fundamental drive in the vast majority of us is toward the attainment of as much security as is possible. In this sense, jazzmen, of all musicians, are our surrogates for the unpredictable, our paladins of constant change.
~ Nat Hentoff