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I don't think I've ever been true to jazz. There's always a kind of jazz element to what I do. There are a very…

— Jamie Cullum

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

— Patricia Barber

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

I look back at Ella Fitzgerald and Sarah Vaughan, and especially Betty Carter, whom I admire the most, and I say, OK, they set…

— Dianne Reeves

In my view a jazz musician is a great musician

— Michael Parkinson

One of the things that's clear to me from interviews that I've read is that the more popular successful jazz musicians had audiences above…

— Branford Marsalis

I think the people who are saying jazz has to sound a particular way, or, 'What you're doing isn't jazz,' are just scared because…

— Robert Glasper

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

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

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

— Yo-Yo Ma

People like Art Blakey and Buddy Rich, you look at them playing music, and it's just like looking at a heavy metal drummer. I…

— Damien Chazelle

A respectable-sized audience hasn't really been able to follow developments in jazz since the free jazz movement in the '60s. Some of them can't…

— Harvey Pekar