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I've never listened to jazz. It's just not something I ever paid attention to.

— Oprah Winfrey

Y'know, I don't like jazz much. I'll put it on once in a while and listen, and I'll appreciate it.

— Joe Perry

I don't separate one era of jazz from another, because I listen to everybody... Everybody takes from everybody else and adds their own thing…

— Sonny Criss

Jazz is a part of me.

— Kamasi Washington

The chief trouble with jazz is that there is not enough of it; some of it we have to listen to twice.

— Don Herold

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

— Nina Simone

Jazz really does try to include everything. It's always been popular music. But the wonderful thing about jazz is its willingness to take chances.

— Madeleine Peyroux

Jazz is the last refuge of the untalented. Jazz musicians enjoy themselves more than anyone listening to them does.

— Tony Wilson

I couldn't get my album played over the so-called smooth jazz stations. Jazz stations would not play it. You don't always know who you're…

— Roy Ayers

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 has always been a melting pot of influences and I plan to incorporate them all.

— Esperanza Spalding

I've got wide tastes, but I don't like jazz.

— Terry Pratchett