Affair Quote by F. Scott Fitzgerald

I think jazz is actually quite unforgiving in its disdain for nostalgia. It demands creativity and change at its highest level.

— Pat Metheny

I still love the whole history of Jazz. The old things sound better than ever.

— Steve Lacy

I didn't really think I liked jazz all that much until I was about 18. That's when the freedom and possibilities of it began…

— Brian Stokes Mitchell

I was totally into jazz in my teens.

— Andy Summers

Jazz is the continual pulsation of the now.

— Pat Martino

There was a period which I refer to as the 'Golden Age of Jazz,' which sort of encompasses the middle Thirties through the Sixties,…

— Sonny Rollins

Jazz celebrates older generations and not just the youth movement. When you 'sell' only to people of a certain age, you get cut off…

— Wynton Marsalis

I still find it hard to believe that the whole era of jazz is over.

— Sam Shepard

We're having a hard time understanding where jazz is going. What happened to jazz?

— Ken Burns

“By and large, jazz has always been like the kind of man you wouldn't want your daughter to associate with.”

— Duke Ellington

One thing I like about jazz is that it emphasized doing things differently from what other people were doing.

— Herbie Hancock

I'm aware that a lot of what is happening in jazz has not had a very dynamic change in a long time.

— Herbie Hancock