Art Quote by Kurt Elling

Jazz music creates so many phenomenal figures.

— Wynton Marsalis

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

I have to plead basic ignorance of most new jazz artists here.

— Gary Lucas

The value of jazz still has to be clarified. People involve themselves with its superficialities without digging for its soul.

— Stan Getz

Jazz music is America's past and its potential, summed up and sanctified and accessible to anybody who learns to listen to, feel, and understand…

— Wynton Marsalis

Jazz is a sideways glance at music. It's like being an architect, knowing the basis of design but understanding that the facade can be…

— Melody Gardot

I don't think that jazz, as any kind of an art form, has any permanence attached to it, apart from the practitioners of it.

— Norman Granz

It's very rare that you get very old jazz lovers and super-young hip-hop lovers at the same exact show, when you think about it.…

— Robert Glasper

Jazz really does try to include everything. It's always been popular music. But the wonderful thing about jazz is its willingness to take chances.

— Madeleine Peyroux

The reason why the music [jazz] is important is because it's an art form-an ancient art form-that takes in the mythology of our people.

— Wynton Marsalis

I've been a massive obsessive about jazz singers all my life.

— Eddi Reader

Jazz is such a living art form. It happens right in the moment. You weave a story by changing certain elements and components.

— Dianne Reeves