Great Quote by Henry Rollins

Jazz is America's classical music.

— Billy Taylor

Jazz does not belong to one race or culture, but is a gift that America has given the world.

— Ahmad Alaadeen

Miles Davis was doing something inherently African, something that has to do with all forms of American music, not just jazz.

— Cassandra Wilson

And what gift of America to the rest of the world is actually most appreciated by the rest of the world? It is African…

— Kurt Vonnegut

I love jazz because it's so American; you know it's our Only Original Art Form. It just goes against the greed of corporate America…

— Bernie Sanders

[Jazz] is a music of freedom and wonder. It's our indigenous art form, and I'm still blessed to travel around the world and people…

— Charles Lloyd

The philosophy of jazz represents tolerance, teamwork and inclusion. That's what America is about. The music reflects that.

— Anonymous

Blues and jazz is our American music.

— Leslie Uggams

Jazz is the favorite music [of America]. It is a type of music invented by [American] Blacks to please their primitive tendencies and desire…

— Sayyid Qutb

It's not jazz as we know jazz here in America.

— Les Paul

Jazz is known all over the world as an American musical art form and that's it. No America, no jazz. I've seen people try…

— Art Blakey

Jazz has an audience all around the globe and has had for many decades, I think speaking of the United States, let's say that…

— Sonny Rollins