Quotes About Freedom

I sing God's music because it makes me feel free. It gives me hope. With the blues, when you finish, you still have the blues.

Jazz is about the only form of art existing today in which there is freedom of the individual without the loss of group contact.

To hell with the rules. I'm going for the unknown.

The music is in the air. Take as much as you want.

Music is worth doing just because. It doesn't have to be justified by some political point of view, and it's kind of insulting to the music to make it a tool for something else.

Play and write music the way you want the world to be.

Music is a fundamental human right

Music is a great natural high and a great natural escape.

The way to write American music is simple. All you have to do is be an American and then write any kind of music you wish.

Jazz is an idea that is more powerful than the details of its history.

I've always told the musicians in my band to play what they know and then play above that. Because then anything can happen, and that's where great art and music happens.

They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.

The reward for playing jazz is playing jazz.

Freedom of Speech is Freedom of Music.

Got no place to go, but there's a girl waitin' for me down in Mexico. She got a bottle of tequila, a bottle of gin, and if I bring a little music, I could fit right in.

If you really understand the meaning of be-bop, you understand the meaning of freedom.

Man, there's no boundary line to art!

The piano ain't got no wrong notes.

Mozart's music is constantly escaping from its frame, because it cannot be contained in it.

A song has a few rights the same as ordinary citizens... if it happens to feel like flying where humans cannot fly... to scale mountains that are not there, who shall stop it?

It's very strange how electronic music formatted itself and forgot that its roots are about the surprise, freedom, and the acceptance of every race, gender, and style of music into this big party.

To me, music was about being accepted and escaping from this crummy existence.

What I'm doing, I prefer to call that jazz, because it is a beautiful word - I love it.

In improvisation, there are no mistakes.