Jazz Quote by Branford Marsalis

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

— Ken Burns

I'm aware that a lot of what is happening in jazz has not had a very dynamic change in a long time.

— Herbie Hancock

Jazz is there and gone. It happens. You have to be present for it. That simple.

— Keith Jarrett

Jazz is the continual pulsation of the now.

— Pat Martino

Jazz musicians are so comfortable. The reason they can't do what we do is because they're so comfortable doin' what they do.

— Miles Davis

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

— Fats Waller

I don't know where jazz is going. Maybe it's going to hell. You can't make anything go anywhere. It just happens.

— Thelonious Monk

I think the people who are saying jazz has to sound a particular way, or, 'What you're doing isn't jazz,' are just scared because…

— Robert Glasper

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

— Sam Shepard

Jazz is something you have to feel, something you have to live.

— Ray Brown

Jazz is about being in the moment.

— Herbie Hancock

Jazz has the power to make men forget their differences and come together... Jazz is the personification of transforming overwhelmingly negative circumstances into freedom,…

— Quincy Jones