Chance Quote by Dave Brubeck

Jazz stands for freedom.

— Dave Brubeck

Jazz is improvisation and syncopation, with resilience and flow, with earthy elegance, nuance and subtlety, with the integrity of individual expression within (usually) a…

— Greg Thomas

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 don't have a definition of Jazz. You're just supposed to know it when you hear it.

— Thelonious Monk

Jazz is a music that really allows a person to express his deepest self, his most personal self - Africa being the primary source…

— Harold Land

Jazz is rhythm and meaning.

— Henri Matisse

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

— Mulgrew Miller

What I believe to be jazz is constructed and improvised music which is in the air right now. But I don't think that's most…

— John Lurie

Jazz is a very democratic musical form. It comes out of a communal experience. We take our respective instruments and collectively create a thing…

— Max Roach

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

— Nina Simone