Big deal Quote by Darryl Pinckney

There's been this perception that Europeans still hold on to, that they discover the real talented ones in American culture and give them proper…

— Andrew Bird

What I can say is that for may years jazz musicians had to go to Europe, for instance, to be respected and to be…

— Sonny Rollins

In jazz, there is a lot of European influence harmonically.

— Dexter Gordon

In Europe they look upon jazz as art. In America it's a diversion. Somebody opens a restaurant and installs another band off to the…

— Chet Baker

I think jazz was just seeking respect and validity because a lot of people didn't believe it was a viable art form, and then…

— Andrew Bird

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

— Tom Harrell

If you didn't have the amalgam of Blacks and African-type sensibility and European sensibility, you wouldn't have jazz. Even in the negative and in…

— Wynton Marsalis

Jazz has been the voice of freedom for so many countries over the past half century,

— Herbie Hancock

Europeans really provided many venues over there and hailed the jazz artists, and a lot of musicians went over there and stayed over there…

— Sonny Rollins

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 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

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

— Ahmad Alaadeen