Artist Quote by Ahmad Jamal

People sometimes forget that jazz was built not only in the minds of the great ones but on the backs of the ordinary ones…

— Cab Calloway

One of the central flaws in the state of contemporary music is that the major record companies have failed to incorporate that simple fact…

— Moby

Of course we've lost so many superstars who've made jazz what it is. We've lost so many musicians who created new things and changed…

— George Benson

There are a lot of records coming out, in every field of music, not just jazz.

— Herbie Hancock

A respectable-sized audience hasn't really been able to follow developments in jazz since the free jazz movement in the '60s. Some of them can't…

— Harvey Pekar

Jazz is like a big secret club. The mainstream media doesn't pay any attention to it, it's like 1 percent of the music market…

— Robert Glasper

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

Today jazz is still very much alive. Everywhere I go there's a new generation of musicians.

— Toots Thielemans

Jazz music creates so many phenomenal figures.

— Wynton Marsalis

One of the things that's clear to me from interviews that I've read is that the more popular successful jazz musicians had audiences above…

— Branford Marsalis

Jazz was not only built in the minds of the great ones, but on the backs of the ordinary ones.

— Cab Calloway

What's happened to the music industry, from my perspective, is a lot of great music is behind the wall that can't get through, and…

— Jimmy Iovine