Audience Quote by George Benson

Y'know, I don't like jazz much. I'll put it on once in a while and listen, and I'll appreciate it.

— Joe Perry

Jazz music is to be played sweet, soft, plenty rhythm.

— Jelly Roll Morton

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

— Don Herold

Jazz is rhythm and meaning.

— Henri Matisse

I'm very much aware in the writing of dialogue, or even in the narrative too, of a rhythm. There has to be a rhythm…

— Elmore Leonard

A jazz tune, melody, or composition is usually based on either a traditional twelve-bar, eight-bar, or four-bar blues chorus or on the thirty-two-bar chorus…

— Albert Murray

Jazz songs have always been quite literal because many of them are taken from musical theater and you only have a couple of moments…

— Laufey

I don't have a definition of Jazz. You're just supposed to know it when you hear it.

— Thelonious Monk

I've never listened to jazz. It's just not something I ever paid attention to.

— Oprah Winfrey

A jazz beat is a dynamic changing rhythm.

— Ken Burns

For the most part, 99 percent of jazz is boring; you've heard it before. People aren't doing anything creative that's extremely modern. They tend…

— Robert Glasper

You can't seperate modern jazz from rock or from rhythm and blues - you can't seperate it. Because that's where it all started, and…

— Art Blakey