Jazz Means Quotes
- As long as there is democracy, there will be people wanting to play jazz because nothing else will ever so perfectly capture the democratic process… — Wynton Marsalis
- Jazz shouldn't have any mandates. Jazz is not supposed to be something that's required to sound like jazz. For me, the word 'jazz' means, 'I… — Wayne Shorter
- Free form jazz means absolutely nothing to me. Because there are no boundaries. — Jon Lord
- I think everybody has to kind of decide what the word 'jazz' means to them, and that's fine. — Kenny G
- What 'jazz' means to me is the worst kind of working conditions, the worst in cultural prejudice. The term 'jazz' has come to mean the… — Maxim Gorky
- One thing that sticks in my mind is that jazz means freedom and openness. It's a music that, although it developed out of the African… — Herbie Hancock
- To most white people, jazz means black and jazz means dirt, and that's not what I play. I play black classical music. — Nina Simone