Jazz Quote by Charlie Watts

Jazz isn't what you do; it's how you do it.

— Fats Waller

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

— Van Morrison

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

If I'm not a jazz player all the time, I've at least been cued in to what I do by jazz.

— Keith Jarrett

My style is a little quirky. I can't play as fast as most professional jazz players.

— Donald Fagen

I think that people should learn about that. In most music, there's one way that you do something, and that's the only way. In…

— Billy Higgins

Sometimes you need to stand with your nose to the window and have a good look at jazz. And I've done that on many…

— J. J. Johnson

Jazz is not background music. You must concentrate in order to get the most out of it. You must absorb it.

— Horace Silver

If you mess around with jazz, you better have a good drummer and a good bass player.

— Gunther Schuller

[If] you don't have any soul and you don't have any talent, jazz is what you should do. ... any fool can do it;…

— Stewart Copeland

Jazz is not about getting and playing whatever notes you want. It is about reworking themes in a manner that sounds good, that can…

— John Kao

Jazz is one of the few things you can do in society and express yourself freely and creatively.

— Mulgrew Miller