Accents Quote by Al Jarreau

Jazz music is America's past and its potential, summed up and sanctified and accessible to anybody who learns to listen to, feel, and understand…

— Wynton Marsalis

Jazz music is to be played sweet, soft, plenty rhythm.

— Jelly Roll Morton

As long as there are people trying to play music in a sincere way, there will be Jazz.

— Lee Konitz

Jazz is an endless source of ideas, because you can use anything. You can play operatic arias. You can incorporate them into jazz. You…

— Sonny Rollins

Jazz is an interesting music. It's one of the few forms of music where everyone that's performing the music has a creative stake in…

— Kamasi Washington

Jazz music is a style, not compositions; any kind of music may be played in Jazz if one has the knowledge.

— Jelly Roll Morton

Jazz is an art form that depends on its antecedents, there must be respect for the people that have gone before.

— Jon Hendricks

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

As long as there are people trying to play music in a sincere way, there will be some jazz.

— Lee Konitz

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 the type of music that can absorb so many things and still be jazz.

— Sonny Rollins

Jazz is not just music, it's a way of life, it's a way of being, a way of thinking.

— Nina Simone