America Quote by Branford Marsalis

It's not jazz as we know jazz here in America.

— Les Paul

Jazz is rhythm and meaning.

— Henri Matisse

Jazz is America's classical music.

— Billy Taylor

I don't have a definition of Jazz. You're just supposed to know it when you hear it.

— Thelonious Monk

Jazz stands for freedom. It's supposed to be the voice of freedom: Get out there and improvise, and take chances, and don't be a…

— Dave Brubeck

Jazz is a music that really allows a person to express his deepest self, his most personal self - Africa being the primary source…

— Harold Land

Jazz is the favorite music [of America]. It is a type of music invented by [American] Blacks to please their primitive tendencies and desire…

— Sayyid Qutb

Jazz is an interesting music. It's one of the few forms of music where everyone that's performing the music has a creative stake in…

— Kamasi Washington

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

— Nina Simone

Jazz is about freedom within discipline. Usually a dictatorship like in Russia and Germany will prevent jazz from being played because it just seemed…

— Dave Brubeck

What I believe to be jazz is constructed and improvised music which is in the air right now. But I don't think that's most…

— John Lurie

Jazz is a music that is open enough to borrow from any other form of music, and has the strength to influence any other…

— Herbie Hancock