jazz

A mistake is the most beautiful thing in the world.It is the only way you can get to some place you__enever been before. I try to make as many as I can.Making a mistake is the only way that you cangrow.

What is my definition of jazz? 'Safe sex of the highest order.

Miranda Writes: Anything you say or do may be used for or against you within a story by a writer

Butterfly upon my hand, A voice of wonder within my mind, not my own but the butterfly's.

I assumed this yoke would encase me as well as any another hobble. Only this one bound the mind.

it ain't as hard as picking cotton

She watched him take the trumpet from its case and fit the mouthpiece. She watched as he raised it to his lips and then, so suddenly, from that tiny cup of metal against his flesh, the sound would burst out like a glorious, brilliant knife dividing the air. And the little room would reverberate and the flies, jolted out of their torpor, would buzz round and round as if riding the swirling notes.

Back then he'd hammered out rags as rough as the planks that made up that schoolhouse stage. Over the years he's taken a saw and rasp to those tunes and smoothed them at the edges, sanded them slowly over time with finer and finer grit paper, and applied a polish to them. The songs are comfortable now. People can take their shoes off to dance without fear of a spike in the foot; they can lie back on that smooth and waxed wood to take a nap in the afternoon or make love all night long. Oliver sees himself as a carpenter, a craftsman putting notes and melodies together, fitting them when they will, stepping back to rest and reconsider when they won't.

In Jazz, like in America, the group works together toward a common cause with lots of room left for each individual to shine.

Jazz is the assassination, the murdering, the slaying of syncopation. I would even go so far as to confess that we are musical anarchists.

Sometimes it's to your advantage for people to think you're crazy.

If it sounds good, it is good.

It__ not the note you play that__ the wrong note _ it__ the note you play afterwards that makes it right or wrong.

He has only heard what I felt.

When stealing from other players, an older musician wisely advised me, choose a different instrument from your own, and people won__ notice the theft.

Jazz is the only lever used by all the riffraff of Tram 83 to switch social class as one would subway cars.

When you scratch these guitars, they bleed.

These babies ain__ just guitars; these babies are living, breathing instruments.