Actually Quote by Pat Metheny

My favorite music is jazz, actually. It's what I listen to, it's what I was raised on, and it's what I prefer to sing.

— Brian Stokes Mitchell

I like jazz but actually I didn't love it enough to study it for four years. It was boring.

— Tom Misch

I'm a jazz musician by education and vocation, but I don't think jazz should [ dictate] what I want to do.

— Dave Douglas

I think jazz is the foundation for a lot of great musicians, and then after that, you know, it's this broad expression of things…

— 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

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

I think of jazz as being homage through innovation. Don't quote that as a definition, but it comes pretty close.

— Kurt Elling

You would be surprised how many people that are very passionate about classical music are deeply involved in Hip Hop. You would think Jazz…

— Thomas Hampson

I think you have to have a jazz pedigree to be on jazz radio.

— Rita Coolidge

I think jazz is a phenomenal creative force, because it's one man, one vote as you're playing, but it's a collective thing, what you're…

— Herb Alpert

Truth be told, I think jazz is a mind-set. It's not necessarily, like, this guy picked up a horn and did this or whatever.

— Flying Lotus

I think jazz and comic books are probably the two uniquely American art forms.

— Len Wein