Blueprints Quote by Cannonball Adderley

Anyone who understands Jazz knows that you can't understand it. It's too complicated. That's what's so simple about it.

— Yogi Berra

Jazz is not just 'Well, man, this is what I feel like playing.' It's a very structured thing that comes down from a tradition…

— Wynton Marsalis

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

— Thelonious Monk

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

— Van Morrison

People need to realize that even the greatest jazz musicians, when they listen to jazz, they're not like, analyzing it and deconstructing it -…

— Kamasi Washington

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

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

— Nina Simone

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

— Stan Getz

Jazz is like wine. When it is new it's only for the experts, but when it gets older everybody wants it.

— Steve Lacy

Jazz comes from our way of life, and because it's our national art form, it helps us to understand who we are.

— Wynton Marsalis

For me, jazz is an understanding of music, rather than an end in itself.

— Jacob Collier

Jazz is an art that takes decades to appreciate and understand.

— Jake Shimabukuro