Band Quote by Charlie Parker

There's no such thing as bop music, but there's such a thing as progress.

— Coleman Hawkins

A jazz beat is a dynamic changing rhythm.

— Ken Burns

It's the repetitive thing that brings space. That's one of the things I love secretly about hip-hop. Jazz doesn't have that element. It changes…

— Robert Glasper

Jazz is all about that. It's bending things and breaking away from what's on the page and improvising.

— Laufey

Jazz is letting everybody do his or her thing with the music.

— Percy Heath

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

— Nina Simone

When I sort of step in my jazz world, it's somewhere between instrumental jazz and vocal jazz.

— Jose James

I don't know any jazz stuff. I don't know how to jam in that way. So jamming, for me, is writing a tune.

— Ryan Adams

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

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

— Van Morrison

Jazz music by its very nature is just a conglomerate of a lot of different kinds of music.

— David Sanborn

Jazz needs the help. It's the more sophisticated music. All the other music is on the TV, but jazz isn't.

— Billy Higgins