{"quotes":[{"text":"Normally, things are viewed in these little segmented boxes. There's classical, and then there's jazz; romantic, and then there's baroque. I find that very dissatisfying. I was trying to find the thread that connects one type of music - one type of musician - to another, and to follow that thread in some kind of natural, evolutionary way.","author":"Jerry Lee Lewis","tags":["music","trying","jazz "],"id":349,"author_id":"Jerry+Lee+Lewis"},{"text":"Jazz is not just 'Well, man, this is what I feel like playing.' It's a very structured thing that comes down from a tradition and requires a lot of thought and study.","author":"Wynton Marsalis","tags":["jazz","music"],"id":1582,"author_id":"Wynton+Marsalis"},{"text":"Welcome to Book-a-holic Anonymous.Hi, I'm Jazz and I am addicted to the written word. I love the smell of the blackest ink sliding across texture paper. My eyes squint against the loss of time within the pages of story. I don't think there's a cure for my compulsion to lose myself within life and times of those characters bound between the covers.","author":"Jazz Feylynn","tags":["addictive","anonymous","book","book-a-holic","character","compulsion","cure","eyes","feylynn","holic","ink","jazz","jazz-feylynn","life","life-and-times","lost-of-time","pages","paper","read","reading","reading-books","reading-habit","squint","story","texture","thought-on-reading","time","times","word","written"],"id":1891,"author_id":"Jazz+Feylynn"},{"text":"The very first thing I remember in my early childhood is a flame, a blue flame jumping off a gas stove somebody lit... I remember being shocked by the whoosh of the blue flame jumping off the burner, the suddenness of it... I saw that flame and felt that hotness of it close to my face. I felt fear, real fear, for the first time in my life. But I remember it also like some kind of adventure, some kind of weird joy, too. I guess that experience took me someplace in my head I hadn't been before... The fear I had was almost like an invitation, a challenge to go forward into something I knew nothing about. That's where I think my personal philosophy of life and my commitment to everything I believe in started... In my mind I have always believed and thought since then that my motion had to be forward, away from the heat of that flame.","author":"Miles Davis","tags":["art","artist","creative-process","jazz"],"id":8170,"author_id":"Miles+Davis"},{"text":"Black women were armed, black women were dangerous and the less money they had the deadlier the weapon they chose.","author":"Toni Morrison","tags":["black-women","jazz","toni-morrison","women"],"id":18230,"author_id":"Toni+Morrison"},{"text":"Butterfly upon my hand, A voice of wonder within my mind, not my own but the butterfly's.","author":"Jazz Feylynn","tags":["being","beingness","butterfly","communication","communication-between-beings","feylynn","hand","in-my-hand","in-my-mind","jazz","jazz-feylynn","mind","not-my-own","own","pcyhic-thoughts","poetry","thoughts-of-the-mind","upon-my-hand","voice-of-wonder","voice-within","wonder"],"id":25276,"author_id":"Jazz+Feylynn"},{"text":"I think my knowledge of music theory is rooted in jazz theory, and a lot of the writers of standards – Rodgers and Hart, and Gershwin.","author":"Zooey Deschanel","tags":["jazz","music"],"id":30527,"author_id":"Zooey+Deschanel"},{"text":"Miranda Writes: Anything you say or do may be used for or against you within a story by a writer.","author":"Jazz Feylynn","tags":["against","anything-you-say","around-a-writer","by-a-writer","caution","caution-in-what-you-say","feylynn","for","for-or-against","jazz","jazz-feylynn","may-be-used","miranda-rights","miranda-writes","quote","to-live-by","about-writers","story","what-you-say","within-a-story","writer"],"id":41460,"author_id":"Jazz+Feylynn"},{"text":"Change is always happening. That's one of the wonderful things about jazz music.","author":"Maynard Ferguson","tags":["change","jazz","wonderful "],"id":47761,"author_id":"Maynard+Ferguson"},{"text":"Jazz stands for freedom. It's supposed to be the voice of freedom: Get out there and improvise, and take chances, and don't be a perfectionist - leave that to the classical musicians.","author":"Dave Brubeck","tags":["musicians","voice","jazz "],"id":52292,"author_id":"Dave+Brubeck"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":123,"pages":13,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}