Great Quote by Julian Bream

I like to say, jazz music is kind of like my musical equivalent of comfort food. You know, it's always where I go back…

— Molly Ringwald

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

I've never aspired to make 'jazz music,' I simply aspired to make music that was in a word, self-soothing and relevant to the resonating…

— Melody Gardot

The whole thing you're taught in jazz is the spontaneity of it. That's what I really love about jazz.

— Stan Getz

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

— Ginger Baker

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

— Nina Simone

As far as playing jazz, no other art form, other than conversation, can give the satisfaction of spontaneous interaction.

— Stan Getz

I always hope that my music is a gateway for people to get to know jazz.

— Laufey

We've played so many places where, if you asked people, 'Do you like jazz?' they would be like, 'Not at all.' But I think…

— Kamasi Washington

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

— Mulgrew Miller

Jazz music should be inclusive. Smooth jazz to me rules out a certain kind of drama and a certain tension that I think all…

— David Sanborn

My music isn't anything but me. It has jazz in it, and rock'n'roll, and it has an urgency to it.

— Neil Young