Ability Quote by Andrew S. Gilbert

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

— Sonny Rollins

Whenever there's a change with Jazz & its aesthetics, it's almost always reflected with a change in the culture.

— Tom Harrell

Jazz is a sideways glance at music. It's like being an architect, knowing the basis of design but understanding that the facade can be…

— Melody Gardot

Jazz has been such a force in music, that any musician, including classical composers, have been influenced, and obviously performers, also.

— Yo-Yo Ma

Jazz is such a living art form. It happens right in the moment. You weave a story by changing certain elements and components.

— Dianne Reeves

It is Jazz's very nature to change, to develop & adapt to the circumstances of its environment.

— Pat Metheny

Jazz has always been a melting pot of influences and I plan to incorporate them all.

— Esperanza Spalding

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

Within the context of Western music, jazz has always contained certain radical or revolutionary aspects. These are: improvisation, collective composition and individuality or the…

— Michael Snow

Jazz is a music that is open enough to borrow from any other form of music, and has the strength to influence any other…

— Herbie Hancock

Jazz infers a style, but creative music has a wider field and wider specification about it. We know it from people like Scott Joplin…

— Wadada Leo Smith

Flexibility is an essential part of Jazz. It's what gives Jazz music the ability to combine with all other types of music and not…

— Wynton Marsalis