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Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music. -- Nina Simone
Jazz isn't dead. It just smells funny. -- Frank Zappa
Jazz washes away the dust of every day life. -- Art Blakey
Life is a lot like jazz... it's best when you improvise. -- George Gershwin
One chord is fine. Two chords are pushing it. Three chords and you're into jazz. -- Lou Reed
The month of September is Women in Jazz, so I'm doing jazz there in September. I'm in for the duration. -- Rita Coolidge
Jazz is the only music in which the same note can be played night after night but differently each time. -- Ornette Coleman
Eclecticism is the word. Like a jazz musician who creates his own style out of the styles around him, I play by ear. -- Ralph Ellison
Jazz is my adventure. -- Thelonious Monk
Jazz stands for freedom. -- Dave Brubeck
Jazz is not background music. -- Horace Silver
Jazz is America's classical music. -- Billy Taylor
God's timing is like Jazz. -- Anonymous
Jazz is democracy in music. -- Wynton Marsalis
Jazz is rhythm and meaning. -- Henri Matisse
Jazz was my first love. -- Frankie Valli
Jazz is about freedom within discipline. -- Dave Brubeck
Jazz is people's music, a collectivity. -- Steve Lacy
Jazz never ends... it just continues. -- Sonny Rollins
Jazz is the music of unemployment. -- Frank Zappa
Jazz music creates so many phenomenal figures. -- Wynton Marsalis
Jazz is freedom. You think about that. -- Thelonious Monk
Jazz is the language of the emotions. -- Charles Mingus
Jazz was uplifted by what I did. -- Norman Granz
Jazz is a good barometer of freedom. -- Duke Ellington
Jazz is about being in the moment. -- Herbie Hancock
Jazz music is the power of now. -- Wynton Marsalis
Jazz is the music of the body. -- Anais Nin
Jazz to me is a living music. -- Dexter Gordon
Jazz tickles your muscles, symphonies stretch your soul. -- Paul Whiteman
Jazz music is an intensified feeling of nonchalance. -- Francoise Sagan
Jazz is part folk art, part progressive art, -- Mulgrew Miller
Jazz musicians have some outlaw in them somewhere. -- Mike Zwerin
Jazz: Music invented for the torture of imbeciles. -- Henry Van Dyke
Jazz speaks for life. This is triumphant music. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Jazz is my comfort music, like comfort food. -- Molly Ringwald
Jazz is the continual pulsation of the now. -- Pat Martino
Jazz music is a language of the emotions. -- Charles Mingus
Jazz is the art of thinking out loud. -- Barbara Januszkiewicz
Jazz is a beautiful word. I love it. -- Dexter Gordon
Jazz is what I play for a living. -- Louis Armstrong
Jazz can be a blank canvas full of possibilities. -- Barbara Januszkiewicz
Jazz music just resonates with the frequency of me. -- Esperanza Spalding
Jazz is like blues with a shot of heroin! -- Miles Davis
Jazz is a state of mind. There's no boundaries. -- Robert Glasper
Jazz is the folk music of the machine age. -- Paul Whiteman
Jazz will be the classical music of the future. -- Dizzy Gillespie
It takes an intelligent ear to listen to Jazz. -- Art Blakey
Jazz can be so serious, no sense of humor. -- Chad Smith
Jazz is one of the least learnable art forms. -- Keith Jarrett
Jazz was home. It created a hunger within me. -- Dianne Reeves
Jazz groups have to make a living any way. -- Lester Bowie
Jazz isn't what you do; it's how you do it. -- Fats Waller
Jazz is so incestuous that it's starting to kill itself. -- Branford Marsalis
Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains. -- Paul Whiteman
Jazz music will continue to thrive, possibly in unexpected ways. -- Pat Metheny
Jazz music is to be played sweet, soft, plenty rhythm. -- Jelly Roll Morton
Jazz is restless. It won't stay put & it never will. -- J. J. Johnson
What kills me is that everybody thinks I like Jazz. -- Samuel L. Jackson
Jazz is the big brother of Revolution. Revolution follows it around. -- Miles Davis
Jazz is an art that takes decades to appreciate and understand. -- Jake Shimabukuro
Jazz is a beautiful woman whose older brother is a policeman. -- Sid Caesar
The wonderful thing about Jazz is its willingness to take chances. -- Madeleine Peyroux
Science teachers and the mentally ill, that's all Jazz is for. -- Noel Fielding
Jazz is the result of the energy stored up in America. -- George Gershwin
I haven't a great Jazz band and I don't want one. -- Glenn Miller
Who knows ... we'll be playing Jazz and having a good time! -- Art Blakey
Jazz is a very accurate, curiously accurate accompaniment to 20th century America. -- Ken Burns
Jazz, isn't that just a series of mistakes diguised as musical composition? -- Michael McKean
Jazz has the ability to absorb & transform influences from diverse musical styles. -- Andrew S. Gilbert
Jazz vision is a wordless conversation between musical notes and visual expressions. -- Barbara Januszkiewicz
Jazz speaks for life. The Blues tell the story of life's difficulties. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Music represents nature. Nature represents life. Jazz represents nature. Jazz is life. -- Sonny Rollins
Fortune ought to be a National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master. -- Nat Hentoff
Jazz, rock and roll, movies and comics are the culture of America. -- Bill Griffith
Jazz is letting everybody do his or her thing with the music. -- Percy Heath
Rather than say I play Jazz, I simply say I play music. -- Kenny Garrett
Jazz is the most fun you can have with your clothes on. -- Herb Pomeroy
Jazz is something you have to feel, something you have to live. -- Ray Brown
Jazz is not a 'form' but a collection of tags and tricks. -- Ernest Newman
Jazz is like a great blues band that fell down the stairs -- Michael Buble
In 1994, I started touring again and I recorded two albums for Chesky Jazz. -- Chuck Mangione
If it hadn't been for Jazz, there wouldn't be no rock and roll. -- Louis Armstrong
If America has a future, Jazz has a future. The two are inseparable. -- George Russell
Jazz is not gonna be a dinosaur and stay around in one form. -- McCoy Tyner
Jazz is neither specific repertoire, nor academic exercise... but a way of life. -- Lester Bowie
Are you stalking me, Mr. Fulton?" The idea both amused and horrified Jazz. -- Barry Lyga
Jazz, like leadership, combines the unpredictability of the future with the gifts of individuals. -- Max de Pree
Nothing else will ever capture the democratic process in sound as perfectly as Jazz. -- Wynton Marsalis
So much of Jazz doesn't have an audience other than music students or musicians. -- Branford Marsalis
For years, Jazz At The Philharmonic albums were the only ones of their kind. -- Norman Granz
By its very nature, no one person can ever be the center of Jazz. -- Ken Burns
Man, as long as people want to hear Jazz, I'll give it to them. -- Lionel Hampton
Jazz musicians are the coolest people on the planet. Can I have some cool? -- Jon Stewart
Jazz comes from anywhere the human being has a soul and has a heart. -- Willie "The Lion" Smith
Jazz was more of a tool for me to use to enhance my musicality. -- John Otto
I've had the pleasure of playing with the baddest Jazz cats on the planet. -- George Benson
Jazz is an idea that is more powerful than the details of its history. -- Pat Metheny
You will never know what the meaning of Jazz is if ask what it means. -- Louis Armstrong
Jazz is played from the heart. You can even live by it. Always love it. -- Louis Armstrong
Jazz has endured because it doesn't have a beginning or an ending. It's a moment. -- Robert Altman
Jazz is like a telescope, and a lot of other music is like a microscope. -- Kamasi Washington
Jazz is something that you have to feel. It's something that you have to live. -- Ray Brown
Today Jazz music is performed & listened to by people of all ethnicity, backgrounds, ages & creeds. -- Michelle Obama
Other than conversation, no other art form can give the satisfaction of spontaneous interaction like Jazz. -- Stan Getz
Jazz should be much less about stress on technical exhibitionism and much more on emotional content. -- Booker Little
Jazz will endure just as long people hear it through their feet instead of their brains. -- John Philip Sousa
It is Jazz's very nature to change, to develop & adapt to the circumstances of its environment. -- Pat Metheny
Jazz is the type of music that can absorb so many things and still be jazz. -- Sonny Rollins
Jazz is such a powerful cultural statement that it's almost as if it's intertwined with society. -- Tom Harrell
Jazz will endure as long as people hear it through their feet instead of their brains -- John Philip Sousa
Fitzgerald coined the phrase the 'Jazz Age,' and now we're living in the Hip-Hop Age. -- Baz Luhrmann
My first guitar, a Fender Jazz Master, I traded it in for a Les Paul Deluxe. -- Lenny Kravitz
Jazz has been the voice of freedom for so many countries over the past half century, -- Herbie Hancock
Jazz has always been a melting pot of influences and I plan to incorporate them all. -- Esperanza Spalding
I've listened to Jazz since I was born and always knew I'd be a Jazz singer! -- Jane Monheit
Jazz changes and all. But I don't know the names of what it is I'm doing. -- Stevie Ray Vaughan
Jazz today, as always in the past, is a matter of thoughtful creation, not mere unaided instinct. -- Duke Ellington
Jazz was born out of the whiskey bottle, was raised on marijiana, and will expire on cocaine. -- Artie Shaw
Jazz is a music of great achievements but speed and chops serve a different function in jazz. -- Marc Ribot

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