Art Quote by Jon Hendricks

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 that takes decades to appreciate and understand.

— Jake Shimabukuro

The value of jazz still has to be clarified. People involve themselves with its superficialities without digging for its soul.

— Stan Getz

Jazz is a very democratic musical form. It comes out of a communal experience. We take our respective instruments and collectively create a thing…

— Max Roach

Jazz is people's music, a collectivity.

— Steve Lacy

Jazz is about the only form of art existing today in which there is freedom of the individual without the loss of group contact.

— Dave Brubeck

Jazz music is America's past and its potential, summed up and sanctified and accessible to anybody who learns to listen to, feel, and understand…

— Wynton Marsalis

Jazz has the power to make men forget their differences and come together... Jazz is the personification of transforming overwhelmingly negative circumstances into freedom,…

— Quincy Jones

I don't think that jazz, as any kind of an art form, has any permanence attached to it, apart from the practitioners of it.

— Norman Granz

Jazz is such a powerful cultural statement that it's almost as if it's intertwined with society.

— Tom Harrell

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

— Mulgrew Miller

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