Chiefs Quote by Don Herold

Jazz needs the help. It's the more sophisticated music. All the other music is on the TV, but jazz isn't.

— Billy Higgins

I've never listened to jazz. It's just not something I ever paid attention to.

— Oprah Winfrey

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

I must say, I don't think there's any more challenging music out there in jazz than what we're doing.

— Patricia Barber

Y'know, I don't like jazz much. I'll put it on once in a while and listen, and I'll appreciate it.

— Joe Perry

It's a mystery to me why everybody doesn't love jazz. I've never been able to figure that out.

— Walter Becker

The main thing about the word jazz, is that it's very limiting to what people are doing.

— Eldar Djangirov

Jazz is a part of me.

— 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

Jazz isn't what you do; it's how you do it.

— Fats Waller

There's more bad music in jazz than any other form. Maybe that's because the audience doesn't really know what's happening.

— Pat Metheny

Jazz took too much discipline. You have to come in at the right place, which is different than me singing the blues, where I…

— Etta James