Baroque Quote by Jan Garbarek

For me, jazz is an understanding of music, rather than an end in itself.

— Jacob Collier

Jazz is America's classical music.

— Billy Taylor

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

— Sonny Rollins

It's not jazz as we know jazz here in America.

— Les Paul

To me, jazz is a place where anything is possible.

— Bill Frisell

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

— David Sanborn

I don't have a definition of Jazz. You're just supposed to know it when you hear it.

— Thelonious Monk

I think jazz is a bit gatekept. Personally, I think that everyone has space in them to enjoy jazz and jazz-adjacent music. It just…

— Laufey

The main thing about the word jazz, is that it's very limiting to what people are doing.

— Eldar Djangirov

I think of jazz as being homage through innovation. Don't quote that as a definition, but it comes pretty close.

— Kurt Elling

What I believe to be jazz is constructed and improvised music which is in the air right now. But I don't think that's most…

— John Lurie

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

— Nina Simone