Band Quote by Gerry Mulligan

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

— Sonny Rollins

Jazz music by its very nature is just a conglomerate of a lot of different kinds of music.

— David Sanborn

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

Jazz music creates so many phenomenal figures.

— Wynton Marsalis

Jazz comes from our way of life, and because it's our national art form, it helps us to understand who we are.

— Wynton Marsalis

Jazz is like a telescope, and a lot of other music is like a microscope.

— Kamasi Washington

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

— Yo-Yo Ma

Jazz is an art that takes decades to appreciate and understand.

— Jake Shimabukuro

Beyond that, it gets down to the nuts and bolts of discipline - not a tradition or genre, I don't care about that, actually…

— Vijay Iyer

Today jazz is still very much alive. Everywhere I go there's a new generation of musicians.

— Toots Thielemans

It's true I've always been attracted to the jazz band in an orchestral way, rather than a band way.

— Gerry Mulligan