Collectives Quote by Herb Alpert

I think jazz is a beautiful, democratic music. It encourages musicians with very strong, and many times, very different points of view to work…

— Marcus Miller

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

Jazz is something that's constantly changing. Its sole purpose is to let people improvise, to let them solo differently each time they play. And…

— Allan Holdsworth

Jazz is a very democratic musical form. It comes out of a communal experience. We take our respective instruments and collectively create a thing…

— Max Roach

Jazz is not just 'Well, man, this is what I feel like playing.' It's a very structured thing that comes down from a tradition…

— Wynton Marsalis

I think jazz is a bit gatekept. Personally, I think that everyone has space in them to enjoy jazz and jazz-adjacent music. It just…

— Laufey

Jazz is not just music, it's a way of life, it's a way of being, a way of thinking.

— Nina Simone

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

— Mulgrew Miller

It doesn't matter if it's jazz or not. It's about how we listen, how we interact, how we guide our attention when we're listening,…

— Vijay Iyer

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

I think jazz is the foundation for a lot of great musicians, and then after that, you know, it's this broad expression of things…

— Dianne Reeves

Beyond that, it gets down to the nuts and bolts of discipline - not a tradition or genre, I don't care about that, actually…

— Vijay Iyer