Done Quote by J. J. Johnson

You need better technique than I have to play jazz, but what you have to do is the same thing, isn't it?

— Charlie Watts

If I'm not a jazz player all the time, I've at least been cued in to what I do by jazz.

— Keith Jarrett

Jazz is not background music. You must concentrate in order to get the most out of it. You must absorb it.

— Horace Silver

I used to be a jazz snob, believe it or not. I sort of turned my nose up at anything more commercial.

— Norah Jones

Jazz isn't what you do; it's how you do it.

— Fats Waller

The point of jazz is, you do something and then you go on.

— Van Morrison

You don't rehearse jazz to death to get the camera angles.

— Stan Getz

I think people psych themselves out before they listen to jazz a lot, thinking that they have to, like, put on a suit or…

— Kamasi Washington

I was exposed to jazz early on.

— Mark White

At a certain point, I became a kind of musician that has tunnel vision about jazz. I only listened to jazz and classical music.

— Herbie Hancock

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

— Mulgrew Miller

It takes an intelligent ear to listen to Jazz.

— Art Blakey