Around the world Quote by Ken Burns

I think jazz and comic books are probably the two uniquely American art forms.

— Len Wein

Jazz is known all over the world as an American musical art form and that's it. No America, no jazz. I've seen people try…

— Art Blakey

I grew up watching American films, listening to American music, and it's a big contribution to the rest of the world. I mean, American…

— Wagner Moura

My audience went, 'Wait, why is she singing jazz? What's going on?' And then they went, 'Oh, because she can. Because she loves it.'…

— Lady Gaga

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 told people about the special music that came out of America and about America in general and this kind of liberty and freedom…

— Al Jarreau

In Europe they look upon jazz as art. In America it's a diversion. Somebody opens a restaurant and installs another band off to the…

— Chet Baker

There's been this perception that Europeans still hold on to, that they discover the real talented ones in American culture and give them proper…

— Andrew Bird

Jazz does not belong to one race or culture, but is a gift that America has given the world.

— Ahmad Alaadeen

As far as I'm concerned, blues and jazz are the great American contributions to music.

— Edgar Winter

Most of arts what comes from the States to Europe has something to do with entertainment. I can't imagine artists in the United States…

— Georg Baselitz

Jazz, rock and roll, movies and comics are the culture of America.

— Bill Griffith