Artistic Quote by Miles Davis

I never thought Jazz was meant to be a museum piece like other dead things once considered artistic.

— Miles Davis

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

— Dave Brubeck

Jazz is like a telescope, and a lot of other music is like a microscope.

— Kamasi Washington

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

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

— Sonny Rollins

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 not only built in the minds of the great ones, but on the backs of the ordinary ones.

— Cab Calloway

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

— Anonymous

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 people's music, a collectivity.

— Steve Lacy

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