Art Quote by Dave Brubeck

Jazz is an art form that depends on its antecedents, there must be respect for the people that have gone before.

— Jon Hendricks

I don't think that jazz, as any kind of an art form, has any permanence attached to it, apart from the practitioners of it.

— Norman Granz

Jazz is one of the few things you can do in society and express yourself freely and creatively.

— Mulgrew Miller

Jazz is such a living art form. It happens right in the moment. You weave a story by changing certain elements and components.

— Dianne Reeves

Jazz is freedom. You think about that.

— 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

Jazz is the false liquidation of art - instead of utopia becoming reality it disappears from the picture.

— Anonymous

Jazz is about freedom within discipline.

— Dave Brubeck

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

I never thought that the music called "jazz" was ever meant to reach just a small group of people, or become a museum thing…

— Miles Davis

Jazz is all about being in the moment. Whatever the music is making you feel, jazz gives you the freedom. That's the same genesis…

— Christopher Jackson

Jazz comes from our way of life, and because it's our national art form, it helps us to understand who we are.

— Wynton Marsalis