Experiments Quote by Don Ellis

Jazz has been such a force in music, that any musician, including classical composers, have been influenced, and obviously performers, also.

— Yo-Yo Ma

I'm aware that a lot of what is happening in jazz has not had a very dynamic change in a long time.

— Herbie Hancock

Jazz has the ability to absorb & transform influences from diverse musical styles.

— Andrew S. Gilbert

Jazz infers a style, but creative music has a wider field and wider specification about it. We know it from people like Scott Joplin…

— Wadada Leo Smith

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

— David Sanborn

Too many jazz pianists limit themselves to a personal style, a trademark, so to speak. They confine themselves to one type of playing.

— Oscar Peterson

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 music creates so many phenomenal figures.

— Wynton Marsalis

What makes jazz different is that you can't predict it, it's all about freedom. Just when you think you know what you're going to…

— Gregory Porter

I don't separate one era of jazz from another, because I listen to everybody... Everybody takes from everybody else and adds their own thing…

— Sonny Criss

Whenever there's a change with Jazz & its aesthetics, it's almost always reflected with a change in the culture.

— Tom Harrell