If people don't like it [my music] now, they will.

We must be as pure as our music.

— Albert Ayler

If people don't like my music now, they will.

— Albert Ayler

Trane was the father. Pharoah was the son. I was the holy ghost.

— Albert Ayler

I think I'll give them another chance. Americans deserve another chance with my music.

— Albert Ayler

Bebop was like humming along to Mitch Miller to me.

— Albert Ayler

I know I’m an African-American, and I know I play the saxophone, but I’m not a jazz musician. I’m not a classical musician, either.…

— Anthony Braxton

I began to realize that some of the things Ornette Coleman had said about things being played three or fours ways, independently of each…

— Miles Davis

I tried practicing for a few weeks and ended up playing too fast.

— Paul Desmond

I'm a jazz musician by education and vocation, but I don't think jazz should [ dictate] what I want to do.

— Dave Douglas

The reward for playing jazz is playing jazz.

— John Lewis

Jazz music just resonates with the frequency of me.

— Esperanza Spalding

Truth of the matter is, jazz is American music. And that doesn't mean bebop. Jazz is really about improvising. All the music that's been…

— Jaimoe

I just love all the music. My grandma was a church organist for 40 years, and she got me into jazz music and great…

— Zach Anner

Jazz is the music of the body. The breath comes through brass. It is the body's breath, and the strings' wails and moans are…

— Anais Nin

Growing up in Iceland, it was very beautiful, very safe, but quite isolated. There was something about jazz music that had a way of…

— Laufey