Aspect Quote by Michael Snow

Jazz is a music that really allows a person to express his deepest self, his most personal self - Africa being the primary source…

— Harold Land

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

— David Sanborn

Jazz is improvisation and syncopation, with resilience and flow, with earthy elegance, nuance and subtlety, with the integrity of individual expression within (usually) a…

— Greg Thomas

As far as I'm concerned, the essentials of jazz are: melodic improvisation, melodic invention, swing, and instrumental personality.

— Mose Allison

Jazz is an interesting music. It's one of the few forms of music where everyone that's performing the music has a creative stake in…

— Kamasi Washington

Jazz is really about the human experience. It’s about the ability of human beings to take the worst of circumstances and struggles and turn…

— Herbie Hancock

Jazz exemplifies artistic activity that is at once individual and communal, performance that is both repetitive and innovative, each participant sometimes providing background support…

— Mary Catherine Bateson

I think jazz is a beautiful, democratic music. It encourages musicians with very strong, and many times, very different points of view to work…

— Marcus Miller

It's always difficult to define what jazz is or what jazz isn't. To me, the only definition that I can think of is it's…

— David Sanborn

Jazz is a music that is open enough to borrow from any other form of music, and has the strength to influence any other…

— Herbie Hancock

It doesn't matter if it's jazz or not. It's about how we listen, how we interact, how we guide our attention when we're listening,…

— Vijay Iyer

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