Century Quote by Mike Figgis

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

The basic difference between classical music and jazz is that in the former the music is always graver than its performance - whereas the…

— Andre Previn

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

— David Sanborn

The history of jazz lets us know that this period in our history is not the only period we've come through together. If we…

— Wynton Marsalis

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 not just music, it's a way of life, it's a way of being, a way of thinking. . . . the new…

— Nina Simone

Certainly, jazz has become more of a niche, which is surprising, because it's our music. It's the national music of America.

— Renee Fleming

Jazz is like wine. When it is new it's only for the experts, but when it gets older everybody wants it.

— Steve Lacy

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

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

Jazz was the beginning of rhythm music, which developed into rock and roll. But what the jazz musicians lost because they were so far…

— Fela Kuti

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

— Nina Simone