Easy Quote by Herbie Hancock

Jazz is freedom. You think about that.

— Thelonious Monk

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

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

— Mulgrew Miller

Jazz to me is the spirit of freedom. I mean real freedom. Freedom to explore. Freedom to express. Freedom to pour out your guts.

— Herbie Hancock

Jazz is all about being in the moment. Whatever the music is making you feel, jazz gives you the freedom. That's the same genesis…

— Christopher Jackson

Put it this way: Jazz is a good barometer of freedom... In its beginnings, the United States of America spawned certain ideals of freedom…

— Duke Ellington

I must say, I don't think there's any more challenging music out there in jazz than what we're doing.

— Patricia Barber

Jazz is a good barometer of freedom.

— Duke Ellington

Jazz is about freedom within discipline.

— Dave Brubeck

Jazz is about the only form of art existing today in which there is freedom of the individual without the loss of group contact.

— Dave Brubeck

Jazz music is all about performance, right? At least, to me, it's about the freedom of performance, the different inflections you do in the…

— Laufey

Anyone who understands Jazz knows that you can't understand it. It's too complicated. That's what's so simple about it.

— Yogi Berra