America Quote by Ahmad Alaadeen

Jazz is known all over the world as an American musical art form and that's it. No America, no jazz. I've seen people try…

— Art Blakey

Jazz is America's own. It is played and listened to by all peoples - in harmony together. Pigmentation differences have no place... as in…

— Norman Granz

Jazz is such a powerful cultural statement that it's almost as if it's intertwined with society.

— Tom Harrell

The philosophy of jazz represents tolerance, teamwork and inclusion. That's what America is about. The music reflects that.

— Anonymous

Jazz comes from our way of life, and because it's our national art form, it helps us to understand who we are.

— Wynton Marsalis

Jazz is America's classical music.

— Billy Taylor

It's not jazz as we know jazz here in America.

— Les Paul

Jazz comes from anywhere the human being has a soul and has a heart.

— Willie Smith

Jazz, of course, is our heritage. Jazz is a culture, it's not a fad. It's up to us to see to it that it…

— Marla Gibbs

Jazz is the favorite music [of America]. It is a type of music invented by [American] Blacks to please their primitive tendencies and desire…

— Sayyid Qutb

If you didn't have the amalgam of Blacks and African-type sensibility and European sensibility, you wouldn't have jazz. Even in the negative and in…

— Wynton Marsalis

One thing that sticks in my mind is that jazz means freedom and openness. It's a music that, although it developed out of the…

— Herbie Hancock