Friday, April 24, 2015

Smile for Today ~

"If you play a tune and a person don't tap their feet, don't play the tune." ~ Count Basie (Aug. 21, 1904  - Apr 26, 1984)

"Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom.  If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn." ~ Charlie Parker (1920 - March 12, 1955)

"The only thing better than signing is more singing."  ~ Ella Fitzgerald (Apr 25, 1917 - June 15, 1996)

"All music is folk music.  I ain't never heard no horse sing a song. ~ Louis Armstrong (1901 - 1971)

"What is soul?  It's like electricity.  We don't really know what it is, but it's a force that can light a room."  ~ Ray Charles (1930 - 2004)

"I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues."  ~ Duke Ellington (April 29 - May 24 1974)

"I wish they'd had electric guitars in cotton fields back in the good old days.  A whole lot of things would've been straightened out."  ~ Jimi Hendrix (1942 - 1970)



"Man, if you gotta ask you'll never know."  ~ Louis Armstrong, asked what jazz is.


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