Art Quote by John Edgar Wideman

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

Basketball, unlike football with its prescribed routes, is an improvisational game, similar to jazz. If someone drops a note, someone else must step into…

— Phil Jackson

Jazz is a music that really allows a person to express his deepest self, his most personal self - Africa being the primary source…

— Harold Land

Jazz is for joy. It's for euphoria, it's for emotion, and anguish, and excitement, and all of the joys that great art can produce,…

— Gary Giddins

Basketball isn't just a sport. It is an art, one that must be mastered to succeed.

— Stephen Curry

Jazz is rhythm and meaning.

— Henri Matisse

“This development signified also that jazz would someday have to contend with the idea of its being an art (since that was the white…

— Anonymous

Jazz comes from our way of life, and because it's our national art form, it helps us to understand who we are.

— Wynton Marsalis

Jazz is an art form that depends on its antecedents, there must be respect for the people that have gone before.

— Jon Hendricks

Basketball is basketball.

— Oscar Robertson

Jazz is really about the human experience. It’s about the ability of human beings to take the worst of circumstances and struggles and turn…

— Herbie Hancock

Basketball is definitely basketball and that's what we love to play, but in the NBA, there's a business side of it. It's a very…

— Tristan Thompson