Actuality Quote by Don Ellis

I feel like certain people think that certain styles of music will taint their jazz style.

— Robert Glasper

The beauty of jazz is that it's malleable. People are addressing it to suit their own personalities.

— Pat Metheny

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

At this time the fashion is to bring something to jazz that I reject. They speak of freedom. But one has no right, under…

— Thelonious Monk

People like Art Blakey and Buddy Rich, you look at them playing music, and it's just like looking at a heavy metal drummer. I…

— Damien Chazelle

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

As for style, there is something about the way musicians dress-they seem to be able to create their own world within their fashion alone.

— Nicole Richie

A respectable-sized audience hasn't really been able to follow developments in jazz since the free jazz movement in the '60s. Some of them can't…

— Harvey Pekar

This is especially a time when today's listener is diversified in their musical choices - not unlike the way we were brought up as…

— Marion Meadows

All the folks I play with come from jazz backgrounds or at least appreciate spontaneity within the parameters of a pop song.

— Andrew Bird

There's a stigma attached to 'pop music,' like it's a taboo word. It used to make my skin crawl when people said it, and…

— Jack Garratt

For me it's the high-water mark of American culture - not so much contemporary jazz, which has become kind of academic, but the jazz…

— Flea