Coltrane Quote by Jan Garbarek

Coltrane came to New Orleans one day and he was talking about the jazz scene. And Coltrane mentions that the problem with jazz was…

— Branford Marsalis

Miles Davis was doing something inherently African, something that has to do with all forms of American music, not just jazz.

— Cassandra Wilson

Miles Davis fully embraced possibilities and delved into it. He was criticized heavily from the jazz side. He was supposed to be part of…

— Bill Laswell

We're having a hard time understanding where jazz is going. What happened to jazz?

— Ken Burns

You know, John Coltrane has been sort of a god to me. Seems like, in a way, he didn't get the inspiration out of…

— Wes Montgomery

I'm aware that a lot of what is happening in jazz has not had a very dynamic change in a long time.

— Herbie Hancock

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

I love, you know, a lot of jazz, John Coltrane.

— Rakim

Jazz stopped being creative in the early '80s. After your acoustic era, where you had the likes of the Miles Davis Quintet, when it…

— Robert Glasper

I don't like totally free jazz, unless it's done by somebody like Coltrane, who did bebop and cool jazz, so he was allowed to…

— John Densmore

If I'm going to be a jazz player, I need to understand Miles Davis.

— Ice T

I still find it hard to believe that the whole era of jazz is over.

— Sam Shepard