Dinner Quote by Herbie Hancock

A jazz musician is a combination orator, dialectician, mathematician, athlete, entertainer, poet, singer, dancer, diplomat, educator, student, comedian, artist, seducer, public masturbator, and general…

— Steve Lacy

In my view a jazz musician is a great musician

— Michael Parkinson

As a jazz musician, you have individual power to create the sound. You also have a responsibility to function in the context of other…

— Wynton Marsalis

In some ways, jazz is the most precise of art forms and the loosest in the sense that it's all about improvisation, but the…

— Damien Chazelle

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

I always felt of myself as a composer, performer, improviser. I've never called myself a jazz man. I make art.

— Wadada Leo Smith

I'm not a jazz artist. Don't get me wrong now, it's all music to me. I just played music and if it's likeable, someone…

— Pharoah Sanders

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 such a living art form. It happens right in the moment. You weave a story by changing certain elements and components.

— Dianne Reeves

Many jazz musicians affect a misunderstood-genius air when they play, which alienates the audience and breaks down the communications of the music. A musician's…

— Gabor Szabo

Jazz is an art form that depends on its antecedents, there must be respect for the people that have gone before.

— Jon Hendricks

Jazz is not something that can be defined through blunt instruments. It is much more poetic than that.

— Pat Metheny