Big deal Quote by Kenny G

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

— Louis Armstrong

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

— Nina Simone

I think everybody has to kind of decide what the word 'jazz' means to them, and that's fine.

— Kenny G

It's not jazz as we know jazz here in America.

— Les Paul

The main thing about the word jazz, is that it's very limiting to what people are doing.

— Eldar Djangirov

I think jazz is a bit gatekept. Personally, I think that everyone has space in them to enjoy jazz and jazz-adjacent music. It just…

— Laufey

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

— Thelonious Monk

A lot of jazz artists think people should like what they're doing just because it's jazz. I don't buy that.

— Pat Metheny

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

— Fats Waller

It's a mystery to me why everybody doesn't love jazz. I've never been able to figure that out.

— Walter Becker

Jazz is something you have to feel, something you have to live.

— Ray Brown

Jazz is something that you have to feel. It's something that you have to live.

— Ray Brown