Art Quote by Miles Davis

I never thought that the music called "jazz" was ever meant to reach just a small group of people, or become a museum thing…

— Miles Davis

Jazz is the false liquidation of art - instead of utopia becoming reality it disappears from the picture.

— Anonymous

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

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

I was really trying to sell to people who hate jazz: to make a case for the art form as youthful and energetic, not…

— Damien Chazelle

Jazz is an art form that depends on its antecedents, there must be respect for the people that have gone before.

— Jon Hendricks

Jazz is an art that takes decades to appreciate and understand.

— Jake Shimabukuro

As long as there are musicians who have a passion for spontaneity, for creating something thats never been before, the art form of jazz…

— Charlie Haden

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

As long as there are musicians who have a passion for spontaneity, for creating something that's never been before, the art form of jazz…

— Charlie Haden

Jazz is about the only form of art existing today in which there is freedom of the individual without the loss of group contact.

— Dave Brubeck

People sometimes forget that jazz was built not only in the minds of the great ones but on the backs of the ordinary ones…

— Cab Calloway