America Quote by Duke Ellington

Jazz is a good barometer of freedom.

— Duke Ellington

Jazz is freedom. You think about that.

— Thelonious Monk

Jazz to me is the spirit of freedom. I mean real freedom. Freedom to explore. Freedom to express. Freedom to pour out your guts.

— Herbie Hancock

Jazz is all about being in the moment. Whatever the music is making you feel, jazz gives you the freedom. That's the same genesis…

— Christopher Jackson

Jazz has been the voice of freedom for so many countries over the past half century,

— Herbie Hancock

Jazz is about freedom within discipline.

— Dave Brubeck

Jazz told people about the special music that came out of America and about America in general and this kind of liberty and freedom…

— Al Jarreau

Jazz stands for freedom.

— Dave Brubeck

In World War II, jazz absolutely was the music of freedom, and then in the Cold War, behind the Iron Curtain, same thing. It…

— Herbie Hancock

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

One of the most important functions of jazz has been to encourage a hope for freedom, for people living in situations of intolerance or…

— Herbie Hancock

Jazz is about the only form of art existing today in which there is freedom of the individual without the loss of group contact.

— Dave Brubeck