If America has a future, Jazz has a future. The two are…

Everything that I'm doing, it's like a future jazz, future trap house movement.

— Masego

Of one thing we can be sure: our own future is inseparable from the larger community that brought us into being and which sustains…

— Thomas Berry

The qualities in music which I considered most important - and still do - were beauty, simplicity, originality, discrimination, and sincerity.

— Paul Desmond

[On John Tunnard:] One day a marvelous man in a highly elaborate tweed coat walked into the gallery. He looked a little like Groucho…

— Peggy Guggenheim

I can tell whether a person can play just by the way he stands.

— Miles Davis

We're not like a nostalgia act, or the normal classic rock act - we're a really good musical organization, ... You're going to hear…

— Steve Miller

When people ask me how is it I was a musician, I facetiously say that I'm a firm believer in reincarnation and in a…

— George Shearing

I grew up in a home filled with music and had an early appreciation of jazz since my dad was a jazz musician. Beginning…

— Molly Ringwald

Anything you are shows up in your music - jazz is whatever you are, playing yourself, being yourself, letting your thoughts come through.

— Mary Lou Williams

That's the kind of musical freedom I like: jazz, rock, blues, anything. You adopt different attitudes when you play different music.

— Alvin Lee

I wonder what an agent would do if he had to travel with the band he's booking.

— Mary Lou Williams

The reward for playing jazz is playing jazz.

— John Lewis

The thing that is making jazz healthy today is that people are coming out of other backgrounds - from rock, folk, from ethnic music.…

— Billy Taylor

Where human eyes have never seen, where human beings have never been, I build a world of abstract dreams, and I wait for you.

— Sun Ra

Bruce Katz is a spectacular talent! He's a brilliant composer and arranger who uses uncommon and unique musical intelligence to redefine jazz and blues…

— Larry Coryell