Artistic Quote by Archie Shepp

Through the dark days of legalized segregation and on into the civil rights era, jazz shone as a beacon for achieving interracial respect and…

— Randy Sandke

“The birth of the civil rights movement was intimately bound up in the spread of jazz music throughout the United States. It was, for…

— Steven Johnson

Jazz came out of New Orleans, and that was the forerunner of everything. You mix jazz with European rhythms, and that's rock n' roll,…

— The Edge

Jazz is the big brother of Revolution. Revolution follows it around.

— Miles Davis

The history of jazz lets us know that this period in our history is not the only period we've come through together. If we…

— Wynton Marsalis

My audience went, 'Wait, why is she singing jazz? What's going on?' And then they went, 'Oh, because she can. Because she loves it.'…

— Lady Gaga

I was curious and hungry at a young age, and jazz was such a mystery to me, an ocean where you can express yourself…

— Paula Cole

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

— Tom Harrell

If you didn't have the amalgam of Blacks and African-type sensibility and European sensibility, you wouldn't have jazz. Even in the negative and in…

— Wynton Marsalis

New Orleans jazz is a complex and embracing art form that began about the same time as the blues and encompassed many of its…

— Tim Cahill

Jazz came from the streets, hip-hop came from the streets. It's just a different language. It's all borne out of hard times, struggle, and…

— DJ Premier

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

— Jon Hendricks