Borrowed Quote by Herbie Hancock

Jazz is a music that is open enough to borrow from any other form of music, and has the strength to influence any other…

— Herbie Hancock

Jazz music by its very nature is just a conglomerate of a lot of different kinds of music.

— David Sanborn

Jazz is the type of music that can absorb so many things and still be jazz.

— Sonny Rollins

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

— Nina Simone

Jazz goes into folk music, into rock music. Jazz is in practically everything except classical music where they're reading the same music all the…

— Van Morrison

Jazz is people's music, a collectivity.

— Steve Lacy

Jazz comes from our way of life, and because it's our national art form, it helps us to understand who we are.

— Wynton Marsalis

Jazz has been such a force in music, that any musician, including classical composers, have been influenced, and obviously performers, also.

— Yo-Yo Ma

Certainly, jazz has become more of a niche, which is surprising, because it's our music. It's the national music of America.

— Renee Fleming

Jazz comes from anywhere the human being has a soul and has a heart.

— Willie Smith

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 music is America's past and its potential, summed up and sanctified and accessible to anybody who learns to listen to, feel, and understand…

— Wynton Marsalis