Cool Quote by John Densmore

Free music is in a constant state of surprise and, consequently, presents no surprise at all. So, I'm not really a fan of Free…

— Pete La Roca

I already experimented with free jazz in the 1960s and, in my opinion, to play free jazz, you have to be a perfect musician…

— John McLaughlin

Jazz is freedom. You think about that.

— Thelonious Monk

A lot of jazz artists think people should like what they're doing just because it's jazz. I don't buy that.

— Pat Metheny

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

Jazz is all about being in the moment. Whatever the music is making you feel, jazz gives you the freedom. That's the same genesis…

— Christopher Jackson

Jazz is about freedom within discipline. Usually a dictatorship like in Russia and Germany will prevent jazz from being played because it just seemed…

— Dave Brubeck

It's a mystery to me why everybody doesn't love jazz. I've never been able to figure that out.

— Walter Becker

To jazz, or not to jazz, there is no question!

— Louis Armstrong

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

Jazz is the last refuge of the untalented. Jazz musicians enjoy themselves more than anyone listening to them does.

— Tony Wilson

Jazz really does try to include everything. It's always been popular music. But the wonderful thing about jazz is its willingness to take chances.

— Madeleine Peyroux