[Jazz musicians] couldn't cut rock. I had to be more…

We're [with Robbie Robertson ] jazz musicians. The context may be rock 'n' roll but it's still jazz. It's jazz and that means improvization...you…

— Van Morrison

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

Coltrane would do what you'd get a Roland Pro Tools module to do but with a group of jazz musicians.

— Colin Greenwood

Many of the jazz musicians whom are no longer here. You don't realize that it's history when it is happening and then time passes…

— Carol Friedman

I will never again play anything that does not have social significance. We American jazz musicians of African descent have proved beyond all doubt…

— Max Roach

Astronomers, like burglars and jazz musicians, operate best at night.

— Miles Kington

All music now, I think, is fair game for jazz musicians to interpret, and they have been. I would consider those songs standards now.…

— Patricia Barber

People who are qualified are symphonic orchestra players and jazz musicians; they're qualified to do what they do. Rock stars are lucky. It's a…

— Gene Simmons

Companies have to take risks to get new knowledge, in a manner similar to how jazz musicians take risks when they go after a…

— John Kao

A lot of times, jazz musicians try to educate people. What other genre does that?

— Robert Glasper

What separates great jazz musicians from average ones is Taste. Those who have taste consistently choose notes, tempos, timbres and voicings that seduce and…

— Marc Myers

Jazz music and, more specifically, jazz musicians, are my artistic heroes. I want to be the Thelonious Monk of acting. He had no concern…

— Trevor St. John

The Ertegun Jazz Hall of Fame will provide a center where the lives and the artistry of the greatest jazz musicians will be celebrated,…

— Ahmet Ertegun

I was being ridiculed for going to school... But, you see, I had looked hard at the other musicians and the whole show-business scene...…

— Donald Byrd

There's been this perception that Europeans still hold on to, that they discover the real talented ones in American culture and give them proper…

— Andrew Bird