African Quote by Christian Scott

Jazz is America's classical music.

— Billy Taylor

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

— David Sanborn

Jazz is such a powerful cultural statement that it's almost as if it's intertwined with society.

— Tom Harrell

Jazz music is to be played sweet, soft, plenty rhythm.

— Jelly Roll Morton

I think jazz is a beautiful, democratic music. It encourages musicians with very strong, and many times, very different points of view to work…

— Marcus Miller

Jazz goes into folk music, into rock music. Jazz is in practically everything except classical music where they're reading the same music all the…

— Van Morrison

Jazz does not belong to one race or culture, but is a gift that America has given the world.

— Ahmad Alaadeen

Today Jazz music is performed & listened to by people of all ethnicity, backgrounds, ages & creeds.

— Michelle Obama

Jazz is the type of music that can absorb so many things and still be jazz.

— Sonny Rollins

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 an interesting music. It's one of the few forms of music where everyone that's performing the music has a creative stake in…

— Kamasi Washington

Jazz is known all over the world as an American musical art form and that's it. No America, no jazz. I've seen people try…

— Art Blakey