Cities Quote by Garth Hudson

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

Jazz music is the power of now.

— Wynton Marsalis

Jazz musicians are spiritual by nature.

— John Densmore

Jazz music creates so many phenomenal figures.

— Wynton Marsalis

Jazz was not only built in the minds of the great ones, but on the backs of the ordinary ones.

— Cab Calloway

Jazz is an art form that depends on its antecedents, there must be respect for the people that have gone before.

— Jon Hendricks

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

— Tony Wilson

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

— Nina Simone

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

— Yo-Yo Ma

Jazz musicians have always tended to have cult followings, which is pretty wonderful.

— Dianne Reeves

Jazz is music made by and for people who have chosen to feel good in spite of conditions.

— Johnny Griffin

The cool thing is that jazz is really a wonderful example of the great characteristics of Buddhism and great characteristics of the human spirit.…

— Herbie Hancock