Bill Quote by John Lurie

Jazz can be so serious, no sense of humor.

— Chad Smith

There are wonderful things in real jazz, the talent for improvisation, the liveliness, the being at one with the audience.

— Henri Matisse

In some ways, jazz is the most precise of art forms and the loosest in the sense that it's all about improvisation, but the…

— Damien Chazelle

To most jazz critics I was basically Kenny G.

— Herbie Mann

If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know.

— Louis Armstrong

I wouldn't really say I'm a jazz guy, which I'm not.

— Creed Bratton

I once tried to sing jazz for real. But jazz didn't do it for me. You can't have jazz without a jazz world, which…

— Jeff Buckley

One thing about playing the real jazz is that you can't count it.

— Mahalia Jackson

Just figure out what you think jazz is, and then if it fits into that category, it's jazz, and if it doesn't, it isn't.…

— Kenny G

People like Art Blakey and Buddy Rich, you look at them playing music, and it's just like looking at a heavy metal drummer. I…

— Damien Chazelle

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

— Les Paul

Jazz was not only built in the minds of the great ones, but on the backs of the ordinary ones.

— Cab Calloway