Chords Quote by Lou Reed

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

— Louis Armstrong

One chord is fine. Two chords are pushing it. Three chords and you're into jazz.

— Lou Reed

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

— Les Paul

Jazz music by its very nature is just a conglomerate of a lot of different kinds of music.

— David Sanborn

Jazz is the type of music that can absorb so many things and still be jazz.

— Sonny Rollins

Just figure out what you think jazz is, and then if it fits into that category, it's jazz, and if it doesn't, it isn't.…

— Kenny G

Jazz is America's classical music.

— Billy Taylor

I like jazz in all the ways that it is played.

— Bill Ward

I'm talking about noise rock. I don't think that noise rock element belongs in jazz. It's not for me anyway; it just doesn't fit.

— Van Morrison

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

— Nina Simone

Jazz is people's music, a collectivity.

— Steve Lacy

Jazz can be a blank canvas full of possibilities.

— Barbara Januszkiewicz