Ability Quote by Esperanza Spalding

People want to have access to jazz because it has a vibe that's very strong.

— Kurt Elling

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

The chief trouble with jazz is that there is not enough of it; some of it we have to listen to twice.

— Don Herold

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

— Pat Metheny

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

— Billy Higgins

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

— Eldar Djangirov

The value of jazz still has to be clarified. People involve themselves with its superficialities without digging for its soul.

— Stan Getz

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

It's not easy to play in a framework that requires simplicity and to tastefully find ways to interject the kind of freedom that we…

— Herbie Hancock

Jazz is a sideways glance at music. It's like being an architect, knowing the basis of design but understanding that the facade can be…

— Melody Gardot

Jazz is not just music, it's a way of life, it's a way of being, a way of thinking.

— Nina Simone

Jazz is the type of music that can absorb so many things and still be jazz.

— Sonny Rollins