Association Quote by Duke Ellington

Jazz came out of New Orleans, and that was the forerunner of everything. You mix jazz with European rhythms, and that's rock n' roll,…

— The Edge

“The role of these New Orleans Creoles in the development of jazz remains one of the least understood and most commonly mis-represented issues in…

— Ted Gioia

New Orleans is a place where people are deliberately undereducated so that they can be a labour class - the economy there is tourism,…

— Christian Scott

Black people invented jazz. But this story [in La La Land] wasn't ever claiming to be that. It's just a story about two people…

— John Legend

Jazz is the favorite music [of America]. It is a type of music invented by [American] Blacks to please their primitive tendencies and desire…

— Sayyid Qutb

I started in New Orleans music and played all through the history of jazz.

— Steve Lacy

Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music.

— Nina Simone

I visited New York in '63, intending to move there, but I noticed that what I valued about jazz was being discarded. I ran…

— Joe Sample

New Orleans jazz is a complex and embracing art form that began about the same time as the blues and encompassed many of its…

— Tim Cahill

I'm really getting to appreciate traditional jazz now - the New Orleans stuff - a lot more than I did before.

— John Goodman

One thing that sticks in my mind is that jazz means freedom and openness. It's a music that, although it developed out of the…

— Herbie Hancock

If you didn't have the amalgam of Blacks and African-type sensibility and European sensibility, you wouldn't have jazz. Even in the negative and in…

— Wynton Marsalis