Around the world Quote by Charles Lloyd

It's something that - jazz is one of the few things that you can go and listen to, I don't care where you're from,…

— Billy Higgins

Jazz to me is a living music. It's a music that since its beginning has expressed the feelings, the dreams, hopes, of the people.

— Dexter Gordon

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

Jazz music is America's past and its potential, summed up and sanctified and accessible to anybody who learns to listen to, feel, and understand…

— Wynton Marsalis

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 I regard as an American folk music; not the only one, but a very powerful one which is probably in the blood and…

— George Gershwin

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…

— Herbie Hancock

I love jazz because it's so American; you know it's our Only Original Art Form. It just goes against the greed of corporate America…

— Bernie Sanders

Jazz is all about being in the moment. Whatever the music is making you feel, jazz gives you the freedom. That's the same genesis…

— Christopher Jackson

I think jazz is the foundation for a lot of great musicians, and then after that, you know, it's this broad expression of things…

— Dianne Reeves

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

— Nina Simone

Jazz is people's music, a collectivity.

— Steve Lacy