About Quote by John Lurie

It's always difficult to define what jazz is or what jazz isn't. To me, the only definition that I can think of is it's…

— David Sanborn

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

— Nina Simone

Nobody has ever been able to define Jazz satisfactorily. This is probably because anyone who was capable of doing so never really wanted to,…

— Mary Kingsley

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

— Thelonious Monk

Jazz is an interesting music. It's one of the few forms of music where everyone that's performing the music has a creative stake in…

— Kamasi Washington

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

— Nina Simone

"Jazz" to begin with, is a really bad word... all the true musicians that really play jazz, jazz is the worst word for it.…

— Eldar Djangirov

Jazz music is a style, not compositions; any kind of music may be played in Jazz if one has the knowledge.

— Jelly Roll Morton

Jazz is not something that can be defined through blunt instruments. It is much more poetic than that.

— Pat Metheny

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

— Les Paul

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

— Kurt Elling