Blown away Quote by Jon Gordon

A lot of people in the jazz community are looking at how much notoriety we're getting. And we're an inspiration to a lot of…

— Robert Glasper

When I came to New York, to Brooklyn, I met Alvin Ailey and Stanley Crouch and August Wilson. They were always putting things in…

— Wynton Marsalis

A lot of times, jazz musicians try to educate people. What other genre does that?

— Robert Glasper

Jazz musicians, in a way, are nerds. We are so in our world.

— Jan Vogler

I've met a lot of jazz musicians in my day, and they're all funny.

— Tommy Chong

The most ironic thing is my grandfather has his masters in music composition; he was a jazz composer. My dad was a musician, too.…

— Travis Scott

You know, Equal Interest played at the Bell Atlantic Jazz Festival Awards and not one musician from that category was even thought of. Even…

— Joseph Jarman

“I was a wise-a** college student of twenty at the time and a precocious musician, with somewhat of that screw-you-I'm-a-jazz-player attitude.”

— Gene Hull

We all know that jazz demands a cultivation of the mind.

— Kurt Elling

The genius of our country is improvisation, and jazz reflects that. It's our great contribution to the arts.

— Ken Burns

Certainly one of the more common experiences in the jazz field is discovering someone new. Improvising musicians are capable of being musical travelers, voyagers.…

— Gary Burton

Yeah, I grew up playing lots of jazz music in school.

— Danny Carey