Jazz Quote by Jose James

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

— Nina Simone

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

— Thelonious Monk

The only element of jazz that I keep is improvisation.

— Jan Garbarek

Jazz is a part of me.

— Kamasi Washington

Jazz music by its very nature is just a conglomerate of a lot of different kinds of music.

— David Sanborn

If I am playing any music at all it is jazz music.

— Ginger Baker

Jazz is the type of music that can absorb so many things and still be jazz.

— Sonny Rollins

Jazz isn't what you do; it's how you do it.

— Fats Waller

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

— Louis Armstrong

Jazz has always been a melting pot of influences and I plan to incorporate them all.

— Esperanza Spalding

Jazz is the music of the body.

— Anais Nin

The point of jazz is, you do something and then you go on.

— Van Morrison