African american Quote by Anthony Braxton

I've been around jazz and jazz musicians most of my life.

— Kenneth Rexroth

I don't think of myself as a jazz musician but a medicine man.

— Abdullah Ibrahim

Rather than say I play Jazz, I simply say I play music.

— Kenny Garrett

I can show you that I have played with just about every jazz musician, every African musician, every blues musician. It's not like I'm…

— Carlos Santana

Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music.

— Nina Simone

I've been a jazz artist playing pop and R&B my entire career.

— Brian McKnight

At a certain point, I became a kind of musician that has tunnel vision about jazz. I only listened to jazz and classical music.

— Herbie Hancock

I am a musician, but I'm another type of musician.

— Sun Ra

I'm not a jazz singer.

— Boz Scaggs

Jazz is what I play for a living.

— Louis Armstrong

I will never again play anything that does not have social significance. We American jazz musicians of African descent have proved beyond all doubt…

— Max Roach

I really love jazz, but I will never be a jazz musician as much as I dream. But, I think that the jazz music…

— Laura Mvula