African american Quote by Herbie Hancock

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

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

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

If you didn't have the amalgam of Blacks and African-type sensibility and European sensibility, you wouldn't have jazz. Even in the negative and in…

— Wynton Marsalis

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

It's something that - jazz is one of the few things that you can go and listen to, I don't care where you're from,…

— Billy Higgins

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

Jazz has the power to make men forget their differences and come together... Jazz is the personification of transforming overwhelmingly negative circumstances into freedom,…

— Quincy Jones

“This development signified also that jazz would someday have to contend with the idea of its being an art (since that was the white…

— Anonymous

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

— Nina Simone

The philosophy of jazz represents tolerance, teamwork and inclusion. That's what America is about. The music reflects that.

— Anonymous

Jazz does not belong to one race or culture, but is a gift that America has given the world.

— Ahmad Alaadeen