Emotional Quote by Booker Little

Jazz should be much less about stress on technical exhibitionism and much more on emotional content.

— Booker Little

In fact, jazz has such a great feeling and great emotional content that it really doesn't require you to have technical understanding of it.…

— Dave Holland

For better or for worse, I think my approach to jazz is very traditional, in one sense, but is [also] very out of fashion…

— Jose James

As long as there are people trying to play music in a sincere way, there will be Jazz.

— Lee Konitz

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

As long as there are people trying to play music in a sincere way, there will be some jazz.

— Lee Konitz

I think jazz is a bit gatekept. Personally, I think that everyone has space in them to enjoy jazz and jazz-adjacent music. It just…

— Laufey

I think we as human beings need to be able to appreciate each other's differences and I think jazz really takes us in that…

— Herb Alpert

People think jazz music is all standards and the Great American Songbook. But it's really about the sensibility, the feel you bring to the…

— Dianne Reeves

It doesn't matter if it's jazz or not. It's about how we listen, how we interact, how we guide our attention when we're listening,…

— Vijay Iyer

I think jazz is a phenomenal creative force, because it's one man, one vote as you're playing, but it's a collective thing, what you're…

— Herb Alpert

Jazz has always been a melting pot of influences and I plan to incorporate them all.

— Esperanza Spalding