Active Quote by Elvin Jones

In my view a jazz musician is a great musician

— Michael Parkinson

There is no roles. No one is keeping any roles. The drummer is also answering everybody and everything. So it is a constant conversation…

— Miroslav Vitous

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

— Yo-Yo Ma

As a jazz musician, you have individual power to create the sound. You also have a responsibility to function in the context of other…

— Wynton Marsalis

If you mess around with jazz, you better have a good drummer and a good bass player.

— Gunther Schuller

The jazz musician’s function is to feel,

— Lennie Tristano

Jazz musicians are so comfortable. The reason they can't do what we do is because they're so comfortable doin' what they do.

— Miles Davis

Jazz is the last refuge of the untalented. Jazz musicians enjoy themselves more than anyone listening to them does.

— Tony Wilson

A jazz musician is a combination orator, dialectician, mathematician, athlete, entertainer, poet, singer, dancer, diplomat, educator, student, comedian, artist, seducer, public masturbator, and general…

— Steve Lacy

I'm very influenced by jazz drummers. I always liked drummers like Roger Taylor, Keith Moon, Ian Paice, John Densmore. I just learned from playing…

— Steven Adler

Louis Armstrong is jazz. He represents what the music is all about.

— Wynton Marsalis

I think jazz is a phenomenal creative force, because it's one man, one vote as you're playing, but it's a collective thing, what you're…

— Herb Alpert