Barbara Januszkiewicz Quotes

The point of jazz is, you do something and then you go on.

What I love about jazz is the improvisation, the fact that you never know what's going to happen next.

What makes jazz different is that you can't predict it, it's all about freedom. Just when you think you know what you're going to hear there'll be a left turn, a jazz musician will change it up.

To me, jazz is a place where anything is possible.

You know. I'll try anything. I'll do anything. I'll explore. Try different takes. All that kind of stuff to do sometimes, to do good performances, but always conducive to having a good time creatively.

What I have to do as a musician is do everything that is not on the music.

Jazz is about being in the moment.

I think that's what I love about jazz is that you can do what you want, and you're allowed to mess up.

Jazz music is an intensified feeling of nonchalance.

The rule is to try and never play the same thing twice when you have the freedom to do that in the song.

You think it's all written, but it's not. There's always another way to twist those three chords around.

Jazz music is the power of now.

There aren't any labels - all jazz means is improvization and you can never play a tune the same way twice. So jazz spills over into everything.

Jazz to me is the spirit of freedom. I mean real freedom. Freedom to explore. Freedom to express. Freedom to pour out your guts.

To me, jazz is the closest thing to insanity that there is in music.

I like to improvise.

I'm playing all the right notes, but not necessarily in the right order.

See, there were certain rules I'd always used, and people like Trane, they would break those rules.

We always have a take that's 'one for fun', so once you've got what you need, you can do what you like. Something does occasionally pop out of that tree. I'm always open to ideas.

As long as there are musicians who have a passion for spontaneity, for creating something that's never been before, the art form of jazz will flourish.

I've always done very 'composed' music and worked-out solos. But sometimes it's fun not knowing where you're going.

I never considered Miles Davis a perfectionist; I always considered him as an excellence-ist, where deviation is actually kind of cool.

There were no rules, other than that the song should sound good and be fun to play.

Music is the only thing I've ever known that doesn't have any rules at all.

There aren't any rules, as far as anything-and that applies especially to writing songs, whatever gets the point across. So you're just kind of brought up to feel-in any field, if you say you can do it, do it. There it is.