Becoming Quote by Pat Metheny

...to me if it's anything, jazz is a verb-it's more like a process than it is a thing.

— Pat Metheny

Jazz is the continual pulsation of the now.

— Pat Martino

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

— Nina Simone

I have to admit that more and more lately, the whole idea of jazz as an idiom is one that I've completely rejected. I…

— Pat Metheny

"Jazz" to begin with, is a really bad word... all the true musicians that really play jazz, jazz is the worst word for it.…

— Eldar Djangirov

Jazz is a word they use to sell our music, but to me that word does not exist.

— John Coltrane

Jazz is the type of music that can absorb so many things and still be jazz.

— Sonny Rollins

Jazz is rhythm and meaning.

— Henri Matisse

The main thing about the word jazz, is that it's very limiting to what people are doing.

— Eldar Djangirov

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

— Steve Lacy

It's not jazz as we know jazz here in America.

— Les Paul