Imbeciles Quote by Henry Van Dyke

Jazz music is the power of now.

— Wynton Marsalis

Jazz music creates so many phenomenal figures.

— Wynton Marsalis

To me, jazz is the closest thing to insanity that there is in music.

— Anonymous

The way that I got involved with microtonal music was, frankly, through jazz.

— John Eaton

I wasn't a jazz player, but a classical musician, and I improvised arrangements of popular songs using classical motifs.

— Nina Simone

Jazz was more of a tool for me to use to enhance my musicality.

— John Otto

Jazz music is a language of the emotions.

— Charles Mingus

A lot of times, jazz musicians try to educate people. What other genre does that?

— Robert Glasper

I can't imagine my life without the extraordinary bebop jazz revolution in New York in late '40s and '50s.

— Robert Wyatt

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

I've never aspired to make 'jazz music,' I simply aspired to make music that was in a word, self-soothing and relevant to the resonating…

— Melody Gardot

When I worked with my uncle, I loved the fact that jazz music demanded that you use your own unique approach.

— Dianne Reeves