Able Quote by Henry Mancini

Jazz can be so serious, no sense of humor.

— Chad Smith

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

— Pat Metheny

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

— Van Morrison

It's always fun to talk about jazz.

— Clint Eastwood

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

— Mulgrew Miller

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

Jazz should be recognized as music of the people, based in a lot of accents and melodies. What is jazz but music that people…

— Al Jarreau

Jazz is musical humor. The noun jazz describes a modern American technique for the playing of any music, accompanied by noise called harmony, and…

— Bix Beiderbecke

Jazz needs the help. It's the more sophisticated music. All the other music is on the TV, but jazz isn't.

— Billy Higgins

A lot of jazz artists think people should like what they're doing just because it's jazz. I don't buy that.

— Pat Metheny

As long as there are people trying to play music in a sincere way, there will be some jazz.

— Lee Konitz