Jazz Quote by Kurt Elling

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

— Thelonious Monk

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

— Nina Simone

...to me if it's anything, jazz is a verb-it's more like a process than it is a thing.

— Pat Metheny

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

— Louis Armstrong

When I sort of step in my jazz world, it's somewhere between instrumental jazz and vocal jazz.

— Jose James

Jazz is like a telescope, and a lot of other music is like a microscope.

— Kamasi Washington

Truth be told, I think jazz is a mind-set. It's not necessarily, like, this guy picked up a horn and did this or whatever.

— Flying Lotus

People need to realize that even the greatest jazz musicians, when they listen to jazz, they're not like, analyzing it and deconstructing it -…

— Kamasi Washington

“Man, if you have to ask what it [jazz] is, you’ll never know.”

— Louis Armstrong

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

— Van Morrison

Jazz vision is a wordless conversation between musical notes and visual expressions.

— Barbara Januszkiewicz

[Jazz] is a music of freedom and wonder. It's our indigenous art form, and I'm still blessed to travel around the world and people…

— Charles Lloyd