Bases Quote by Miroslav Vitous

So our ears got used to listening to jazz in the place that it was that the bass player could not play. No one…

— Miroslav Vitous

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 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 a jazz musician, you have individual power to create the sound. You also have a responsibility to function in the context of other…

— Wynton Marsalis

Nobody has ever been able to define Jazz satisfactorily. This is probably because anyone who was capable of doing so never really wanted to,…

— Mary Kingsley

Jazz is about freedom within discipline. Usually a dictatorship like in Russia and Germany will prevent jazz from being played because it just seemed…

— Dave Brubeck

There's more bad music in jazz than any other form. Maybe that's because the audience doesn't really know what's happening.

— Pat Metheny

Jazz music is a style, not compositions; any kind of music may be played in Jazz if one has the knowledge.

— Jelly Roll Morton

I always say that the problem with jazz accessibility is not the content of the music, it's people's ability to access it.

— Esperanza Spalding

Jazz is not something that can be defined through blunt instruments. It is much more poetic than that.

— Pat Metheny

In order to play jazz, you have to be able to play the blues.

— Robert Cray

An entire composition written in jazz could not live.

— George Gershwin