Audience Quote by Henri Matisse

There are wonderful things in real jazz, the talent for improvisation, the liveliness, the being at one with the audience.

— Henri Matisse

Jazz is one of the few things you can do in society and express yourself freely and creatively.

— Mulgrew Miller

Jazz is really about the human experience. It’s about the ability of human beings to take the worst of circumstances and struggles and turn…

— Herbie Hancock

Jazz is an interesting music. It's one of the few forms of music where everyone that's performing the music has a creative stake in…

— Kamasi Washington

The beauty of jazz is that it's malleable. People are addressing it to suit their own personalities.

— Pat Metheny

Jazz music is all about performance, right? At least, to me, it's about the freedom of performance, the different inflections you do in the…

— Laufey

The wonderful thing about Jazz is its willingness to take chances.

— Madeleine Peyroux

Jazz music creates so many phenomenal figures.

— Wynton Marsalis

Jazz exemplifies artistic activity that is at once individual and communal, performance that is both repetitive and innovative, each participant sometimes providing background support…

— Mary Catherine Bateson

Jazz onstage is a very intimate exchange between everybody that's onstage.

— Dianne Reeves

The point of jazz is, you do something and then you go on.

— Van Morrison

To me, jazz is a place where anything is possible.

— Bill Frisell