About Quote by Billy Higgins

Jazz isn't what you do; it's how you do it.

— Fats Waller

A lot of jazz artists think people should like what they're doing just because it's jazz. I don't buy that.

— Pat Metheny

The point of jazz is, you do something and then you go on.

— Van Morrison

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

— Nina Simone

Jazz is letting everybody do his or her thing with the music.

— Percy Heath

You need better technique than I have to play jazz, but what you have to do is the same thing, isn't it?

— Charlie Watts

The whole thing you're taught in jazz is the spontaneity of it. That's what I really love about jazz.

— Stan Getz

Truth be told, I think jazz is a mind-set. It's not necessarily, like, this guy picked up a horn and did this or whatever.

— Flying Lotus

Jazz is one of the few things you can do in society and express yourself freely and creatively.

— Mulgrew Miller

I think people psych themselves out before they listen to jazz a lot, thinking that they have to, like, put on a suit or…

— Kamasi Washington

There is a modern take on certain things you can do that, to me, is still jazz.

— Robert Glasper

There's more bad music in jazz than any other form. Maybe that's because the audience doesn't really know what's happening.

— Pat Metheny