Black Quote by Ashley Kahn

The word [jazz] never lost its association with those New Orleans bordellos. In the 1920s I used to try to convince Fletcher Henderson that…

— Duke Ellington

I visited New York in '63, intending to move there, but I noticed that what I valued about jazz was being discarded. I ran…

— Joe Sample

The jazz boom was goin' on then so there was a lot happenin' in New York at that time.

— Mose Allison

Black people invented jazz. But this story [in La La Land] wasn't ever claiming to be that. It's just a story about two people…

— John Legend

All the jazz guys had interracial relationships, and even the ladies did. Over the years, interracial relationships have been a hip, almost defiant thing,…

— Quincy Jones

We're having a hard time understanding where jazz is going. What happened to jazz?

— Ken Burns

I grew up in the Great Depression, and the jazz artists and Dixieland musicians were at the core of our communications and enjoyment. They…

— Harry Belafonte

“This development signified also that jazz would someday have to contend with the idea of its being an art (since that was the white…

— Anonymous

I still find it hard to believe that the whole era of jazz is over.

— Sam Shepard

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

I was exposed to jazz early on.

— Mark White

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