Built Quote by Cab Calloway

Jazz was not only built in the minds of the great ones, but on the backs of the ordinary ones.

— Cab Calloway

You hear about the Duke Ellingtons, the Jimmie Luncefords, and the Fletcher Hendersons, but people sometimes forget that jazz was not only built in…

— Cab Calloway

Jazz is a sideways glance at music. It's like being an architect, knowing the basis of design but understanding that the facade can be…

— Melody Gardot

What I came back to is that jazz is a music to be played and not to be intellectualized on.

— Gerry Mulligan

I never thought that the music called "jazz" was ever meant to reach just a small group of people, or become a museum thing…

— Miles Davis

Many people forget that Jazz, no matter what form it takes, must come from the heart as well as the mind.

— Mary Lou Williams

It's a mystery to me why everybody doesn't love jazz. I've never been able to figure that out.

— Walter Becker

I still love the whole history of Jazz. The old things sound better than ever.

— Steve Lacy

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

Jazz is an idea that is more powerful than the details of its history.

— Pat Metheny

The value of jazz still has to be clarified. People involve themselves with its superficialities without digging for its soul.

— Stan Getz

Many fail to realize this great recording industry was built by so-called jazz artists. And at the other end of the spectrum, a base…

— Ahmad Jamal