Church Quote by Art Blakey

I don't separate one era of jazz from another, because I listen to everybody... Everybody takes from everybody else and adds their own thing…

— Sonny Criss

Jazz music by its very nature is just a conglomerate of a lot of different kinds of music.

— David Sanborn

Jazz is not just music, it's a way of life, it's a way of being, a way of thinking.

— Nina Simone

Jazz goes into folk music, into rock music. Jazz is in practically everything except classical music where they're reading the same music all the…

— Van Morrison

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

Jazz is the type of music that can absorb so many things and still be jazz.

— Sonny Rollins

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

Jazz is rhythm and meaning.

— Henri Matisse

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

Beyond that, it gets down to the nuts and bolts of discipline - not a tradition or genre, I don't care about that, actually…

— Vijay Iyer

Jazz comes from anywhere the human being has a soul and has a heart.

— Willie Smith

If you go back to the roots of jazz, it was all about COLLECTIVE improvisation.

— Henry Threadgill