Action Quote by Charlton Laird

Nobody has ever been able to define Jazz satisfactorily. This is probably because anyone who was capable of doing so never really wanted to,…

— Mary Kingsley

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

— Thelonious Monk

Jazz has the power to make men forget their differences and come together... Jazz is the personification of transforming overwhelmingly negative circumstances into freedom,…

— Quincy Jones

The main thing about the word jazz, is that it's very limiting to what people are doing.

— Eldar Djangirov

Jazz is a word they use to sell our music, but to me that word does not exist.

— John Coltrane

Jazz is about freedom within discipline. Usually a dictatorship like in Russia and Germany will prevent jazz from being played because it just seemed…

— Dave Brubeck

Jazz is rhythm and meaning.

— Henri Matisse

What is my definition of jazz? "Safe sex of the highest order."

— Kurt Vonnegut

...to me if it's anything, jazz is a verb-it's more like a process than it is a thing.

— Pat Metheny

It's not jazz as we know jazz here in America.

— Les Paul

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 not something that can be defined through blunt instruments. It is much more poetic than that.

— Pat Metheny