Certain Quote by David Sanborn

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 really does try to include everything. It's always been popular music. But the wonderful thing about jazz is its willingness to take chances.

— Madeleine Peyroux

Jazz is something that's constantly changing. Its sole purpose is to let people improvise, to let them solo differently each time they play. And…

— Allan Holdsworth

I feel that Jazz improvisation is the ultimate. You have to create on the spot, the essence of this music.

— Sonny Rollins

I prefer music where melody, harmony and rhythm come together and no one element overshadows the other. Jazz at its best is a democracy…

— Jimmy Heath

I think jazz is a bit gatekept. Personally, I think that everyone has space in them to enjoy jazz and jazz-adjacent music. It just…

— Laufey

Jazz music is to be played sweet, soft, plenty rhythm.

— Jelly Roll Morton

In Jazz, improvisation isn't a matter of just making any ol' thing up. Jazz, like any language, has its own grammer and vocabulary. There's…

— Wynton Marsalis

In fact, jazz has such a great feeling and great emotional content that it really doesn't require you to have technical understanding of it.…

— Dave Holland

People think jazz music is all standards and the Great American Songbook. But it's really about the sensibility, the feel you bring to the…

— Dianne Reeves

I really like the complexity of jazz, the emotional depth; I feel like there's no other music that's really as satisfying as jazz.

— Jose James

I grew up in the funk, rock and roll, blues and r&b tradition, and I came to this thing we call jazz later. And…

— Hamid Drake