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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

I don't think that jazz, as any kind of an art form, has any permanence attached to it, apart from the practitioners of it.

— Norman Granz

Jazz is about the only form of art existing today in which there is freedom of the individual without the loss of group contact.

— Dave Brubeck

I was really trying to sell to people who hate jazz: to make a case for the art form as youthful and energetic, not…

— Damien Chazelle

I never thought Jazz was meant to be a museum piece like other dead things once considered artistic.

— Miles Davis

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

— Tom Harrell

The value of jazz still has to be clarified. People involve themselves with its superficialities without digging for its soul.

— Stan Getz

Jazz is an art that takes decades to appreciate and understand.

— Jake Shimabukuro

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 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 can be a blank canvas full of possibilities.

— Barbara Januszkiewicz

Jazz is the continual pulsation of the now.

— Pat Martino