Always Quote by Gregory Porter

I think everybody has to kind of decide what the word 'jazz' means to them, and that's fine.

— Kenny G

If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know.

— Louis Armstrong

Jazz is like wine. When it is new it's only for the experts, but when it gets older everybody wants it.

— Steve Lacy

Just figure out what you think jazz is, and then if it fits into that category, it's jazz, and if it doesn't, it isn't.…

— Kenny G

Jazz is something you have to feel, something you have to live.

— Ray Brown

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

— Thelonious Monk

Jazz is a sideways glance at music. It's like being an architect, knowing the basis of design but understanding that the facade can be…

— Melody Gardot

The main thing about the word jazz, is that it's very limiting to what people are doing.

— Eldar Djangirov

Jazz is an idea that is more powerful than the details of its history.

— Pat Metheny

There's no future without the past and anybody who doesn't really understand where jazz has come from has no right to try to direct…

— Cannonball Adderley

Jazz is something that you have to feel. It's something that you have to live.

— Ray Brown

Jazz can be a blank canvas full of possibilities.

— Barbara Januszkiewicz