America Quote by Art Blakey

Jazz is known all over the world as an American musical art form and that's it. No America, no jazz. I've seen people try…

— Art Blakey

Jazz does not belong to one race or culture, but is a gift that America has given the world.

— Ahmad Alaadeen

The people know more about [Jazz] in other countries than in America. America is the last country to know about anything, because we're too…

— Art Blakey

The philosophy of jazz represents tolerance, teamwork and inclusion. That's what America is about. The music reflects that.

— Anonymous

Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.

— Paul Whiteman

Jazz is America's classical music.

— Billy Taylor

It's not jazz as we know jazz here in America.

— Les Paul

Jazz, and the history of jazz, is the history of America.

— Ron Cephas Jones

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

I know jazz is completely un-American. But the reason why America doesn't like it is because it's not funny. We [americans] have made jazz…

— Paul Provenza

In Europe they look upon jazz as art. In America it's a diversion. Somebody opens a restaurant and installs another band off to the…

— Chet Baker

It seems to me monstrous that anyone should believe that the jazz rhythm expresses America. Jazz rhythm expresses the primitive savage.

— Isadora Duncan