Bix Beiderbecke Quotes

"We have great times traveling about, the boys are airplane crazy and movie-shy. We have a new Travelair plane and several are learning to pilot. Might come in handy sometimes, in case we oversleep and miss the train." - Bix Beiderbecke

Bix Beiderbecke Quotes

"The boys told me to put more American punch into melodies. A copy of 'Yes, We Have No Bananas' was put before me and I was told play like a he-man." - Bix Beiderbecke

Bix Beiderbecke Quotes

"The humor of jazz is rich and many-sided. Some of it is obvious enough to make a dog laugh. Some is subtle, wry-mouthed, or back-handed. It is by turns bitter, agonized, and grotesque. Even in the hands of white composers it involuntarily reflects the half-forgotten suffering of the negro. Jazz has both white and black elements, and each in some respects has influenced the other. It's recent phase seems to throw the light of the white race's sophistication upon the anguish of the black." - Bix Beiderbecke

Bix Beiderbecke Quotes

"The jazz band's chief stimulus, of course, was the rise of the negro "blues" and their exploitation by the negro song-writer, W. C. Handy." - Bix Beiderbecke

Bix Beiderbecke Quotes

"Jazz is musical humor. The noun jazz describes a modern American technique for the playing of any music, accompanied by noise called harmony, and interpolated instrumental effects. It also describes music exhibiting influence of that technique which has as its traditional object to secure the effects of surprise, or in the broadest sense, humor." - Bix Beiderbecke

Bix Beiderbecke Quotes

"One of the things I like about jazz, kid, is I don't know what's going to happen next. Do you?" - Bix Beiderbecke