Jazz Quote by Andy Partridge

Anybody who loves jazz has a little bit of snob in them.

— Robert Glasper

If it hadn't been for Jazz, there wouldn't be no rock and roll.

— Louis Armstrong

I think jazz is actually quite unforgiving in its disdain for nostalgia. It demands creativity and change at its highest level.

— Pat Metheny

Whether you like punk, grunge, or early rock and roll, there's probably something in there you've been living with your whole life and you…

— Gregory Porter

Everybody's not going to like jazz, let's just be honest about it. Everybody doesn't like everything. There's a disconnect in generations and some people…

— Robert Glasper

What I came back to is that jazz is a music to be played and not to be intellectualized on.

— Gerry Mulligan

I used to be a jazz snob, believe it or not. I sort of turned my nose up at anything more commercial.

— Norah Jones

I was never that big a rock-and-roll, rock guy. I really preferred jazz, you know, that kind of thing.

— Robert Barry

Jazz was always cool. That was what I liked about jazz - it was always cool. Now I see the cats that were basically…

— Van Morrison

I just can't stand jazz/rock. I think it's the worst thing that's come down the river yet.

— Van Morrison

Rock was getting too complicated, too fused - everything was jazz-rock, country-rock, progressive-rock, this-rock and that-rock, and it was all so bland, so predictable.

— Marky Ramone

Just figure out what you think jazz is, and then if it fits into that category, it's jazz, and if it doesn't, it isn't.…

— Kenny G