Art Quote by Dave Brubeck

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

— Sonny Rollins

Just figure out what you think jazz is, and then if it fits into that category, it's jazz, and if it doesn't, it isn't.…

— Kenny G

There aren't any labels - all jazz means is improvization and you can never play a tune the same way twice. So jazz spills…

— Van Morrison

"Jazz" to begin with, is a really bad word... all the true musicians that really play jazz, jazz is the worst word for it.…

— Eldar Djangirov

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

— David Sanborn

A lot of jazz artists think people should like what they're doing just because it's jazz. I don't buy that.

— Pat Metheny

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 the favorite music [of America]. It is a type of music invented by [American] Blacks to please their primitive tendencies and desire…

— Sayyid Qutb

Funk could very easily be called jazz, but you call it funk. Does that really matter? People dig that they associate themselves with certain…

— Kamasi Washington

It doesn't matter if it's jazz or not. It's about how we listen, how we interact, how we guide our attention when we're listening,…

— Vijay Iyer

Duke Ellington's career traces the entire history of jazz. The repertoire associated with him contains the most important elements in the music and provides…

— Billy Taylor