Free Quote by John McLaughlin

I don't want to do free jazz! Because free jazz - which is the musical equivalent of free marketeering - isn't actually free at…

— Brian Eno

I don't like totally free jazz, unless it's done by somebody like Coltrane, who did bebop and cool jazz, so he was allowed to…

— 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

Jazz is one of the few things you can do in society and express yourself freely and creatively.

— Mulgrew Miller

I got into playing the jazz. I played jazz for a good while. I did the popular stuff first. You got the "Twelfth Street…

— Papa John Creach

I love playing jazz because I love the freedom you have to improvise. It has given me a feeling in my classical repertoire of…

— Julian Bream

It's not easy to play in a framework that requires simplicity and to tastefully find ways to interject the kind of freedom that we…

— Herbie Hancock

Jazz is not the kind of music you are going to learn to play in three or four years or that you can just…

— Wynton Marsalis

I don't think I've ever been true to jazz. There's always a kind of jazz element to what I do. There are a very…

— Jamie Cullum

I'm a jazz musician, and I really wanted to not miss an opportunity to have the full connection to jazz.

— Kurt Elling

If you didn't have the amalgam of Blacks and African-type sensibility and European sensibility, you wouldn't have jazz. Even in the negative and in…

— Wynton Marsalis

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