Black Quote by Nina Simone

Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music.

— Nina Simone

One thing that sticks in my mind is that jazz means freedom and openness. It's a music that, although it developed out of the…

— Herbie Hancock

Jazz is a racist musical form invented by whites to enslave blacks.

— Lyndon LaRouche

Rather than say I play Jazz, I simply say I play music.

— Kenny Garrett

I know I’m an African-American, and I know I play the saxophone, but I’m not a jazz musician. I’m not a classical musician, either.…

— Anthony Braxton

If you like rock and roll, if you like rhythm and blues, if you like jazz, if you like hip-hop, you might be black-ish.

— Laurence Fishburne

Jazz is the favorite music [of America]. It is a type of music invented by [American] Blacks to please their primitive tendencies and desire…

— Sayyid Qutb

If you didn't have the amalgam of Blacks and African-type sensibility and European sensibility, you wouldn't have jazz. Even in the negative and in…

— Wynton Marsalis

I don't have a definition of Jazz. You're just supposed to know it when you hear it.

— Thelonious Monk

Jazz is what I play for a living.

— Louis Armstrong

Jazz does not belong to one race or culture, but is a gift that America has given the world.

— Ahmad Alaadeen

What 'jazz' means to me is the worst kind of working conditions, the worst in cultural prejudice. The term 'jazz' has come to mean…

— Maxim Gorky