Constitution Quote by Dave Brubeck

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

As long as there is democracy, there will be people wanting to play jazz because nothing else will ever so perfectly capture the democratic…

— Wynton Marsalis

Jazz is democracy in music.

— Wynton Marsalis

Jazz is freedom. You think about that.

— Thelonious Monk

There's so much spirit of integration and democracy in jazz.

— Wynton Marsalis

It's not easy to play in a framework that requires simplicity and to tastefully find ways to interject the kind of freedom that we…

— Herbie Hancock

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

— Mulgrew Miller

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

“Today you go into make a modern recording with all this technology. The bass plays first, then the drums come in later, then they…

— Wynton Marsalis

Beyond that, it gets down to the nuts and bolts of discipline - not a tradition or genre, I don't care about that, actually…

— Vijay Iyer

Jazz musicians are so comfortable. The reason they can't do what we do is because they're so comfortable doin' what they do.

— Miles Davis