Art Quote by Pat Metheny

It's a mystery to me why everybody doesn't love jazz. I've never been able to figure that out.

— Walter Becker

Jazz is not just music, it's a way of life, it's a way of being, a way of thinking.

— Nina Simone

Jazz really does try to include everything. It's always been popular music. But the wonderful thing about jazz is its willingness to take chances.

— Madeleine Peyroux

I love jazz because it's so American; you know it's our Only Original Art Form. It just goes against the greed of corporate America…

— Bernie Sanders

Everybody's not going to like jazz, let's just be honest about it. Everybody doesn't like everything. There's a disconnect in generations and some people…

— Robert Glasper

I think the people who are saying jazz has to sound a particular way, or, 'What you're doing isn't jazz,' are just scared because…

— Robert Glasper

Jazz is like wine. When it is new it's only for the experts, but when it gets older everybody wants it.

— Steve Lacy

The beauty of jazz is that it's malleable. People are addressing it to suit their own personalities.

— Pat Metheny

People think jazz music is all standards and the Great American Songbook. But it's really about the sensibility, the feel you bring to the…

— Dianne Reeves

Just figure out what you think jazz is, and then if it fits into that category, it's jazz, and if it doesn't, it isn't.…

— Kenny G

The point of jazz is, you do something and then you go on.

— Van Morrison

The value of jazz still has to be clarified. People involve themselves with its superficialities without digging for its soul.

— Stan Getz