Break Quote by Norman Granz

If you go back to the roots of jazz, it was all about COLLECTIVE improvisation.

— Henry Threadgill

I'm a jazz musician, and I really wanted to not miss an opportunity to have the full connection to jazz.

— Kurt Elling

Jazz was more of a tool for me to use to enhance my musicality.

— John Otto

One thing I like about jazz is that it emphasized doing things differently from what other people were doing.

— Herbie Hancock

There's so much spirit of integration and democracy in jazz.

— Wynton Marsalis

It's true I've always been attracted to the jazz band in an orchestral way, rather than a band way.

— Gerry Mulligan

Jazz is a part of me.

— Kamasi Washington

I was really falling in love with jazz and dedicating myself in that direction.

— Jon Gordon

To me, jazz is a place where anything is possible.

— Bill Frisell

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 suppose it was later on that I realized that there was some reaction among the musicians themselves, some of whom resented the success…

— Ashley Kahn

I cut myself off from the mainstream of jazz. It stood me in good stead later on, as a musician.

— Dave Van Ronk