Composition Quote by George Gershwin

Jazz, isn't that just a series of mistakes diguised as musical composition?

— Michael McKean

You can't just say jazz is dead.

— Statik Selektah

Jazz is about the only form of art existing today in which there is freedom of the individual without the loss of group contact.

— Dave Brubeck

Jazz is neither specific repertoire, nor academic exercise... but a way of life.

— Lester Bowie

You can't make jazz without using certain elements of Latin music.

— Jelly Roll Morton

Nobody has ever been able to define Jazz satisfactorily. This is probably because anyone who was capable of doing so never really wanted to,…

— Mary Kingsley

Jazz can be a blank canvas full of possibilities.

— Barbara Januszkiewicz

I don't think that jazz, as any kind of an art form, has any permanence attached to it, apart from the practitioners of it.

— Norman Granz

Jazz is such a living art form. It happens right in the moment. You weave a story by changing certain elements and components.

— Dianne Reeves

By its very nature, no one person can ever be the center of Jazz.

— Ken Burns

So the whole basis for jazz music is based on the fact that the bass player could not play his instrument.

— Miroslav Vitous

Jazz music is a style, not compositions; any kind of music may be played in Jazz if one has the knowledge.

— Jelly Roll Morton