Black Quote by Jayne Cortez

There's a jazz influence in my music in general.

— Alexandre Desplat

When I was in high school I made the discovery that if I was playing in a jazz club, and there were black people…

— Paul Smoker

One thing that sticks in my mind is that jazz means freedom and openness. It's a music that, although it developed out of the…

— Herbie Hancock

Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music.

— Nina Simone

I am particularly conscious of my connection to the poets of the Harlem Renaissance because I, too, am a Black poet, born into, and…

— Nikki Grimes

I know I’m an African-American, and I know I play the saxophone, but I’m not a jazz musician. I’m not a classical musician, either.…

— Anthony Braxton

I've been around jazz and jazz musicians most of my life.

— Kenneth Rexroth

I always felt of myself as a composer, performer, improviser. I've never called myself a jazz man. I make art.

— Wadada Leo Smith

I am black: I am the incarnation of a complete fusion with the world, an intuitive understanding of the earth, an abandonment of my…

— Frantz Fanon

Jazz is a constant theme in my life. My father is a jazz pianist, and from an early age I have been surrounded by…

— Nat Wolff

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 and poetry both involve a structure that may be familiar and to some extent predictable. And then, you try to create as much…

— Robert Pinsky