Blunt Quote by Pat Metheny

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

— Nina Simone

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

— Thelonious Monk

Nobody has ever been able to define Jazz satisfactorily. This is probably because anyone who was capable of doing so never really wanted to,…

— Mary Kingsley

Jazz is a very democratic musical form. It comes out of a communal experience. We take our respective instruments and collectively create a thing…

— Max Roach

Jazz is a democratic musical form. We take our respective instruments & collectively create a thing of beauty.

— Max Roach

What I believe to be jazz is constructed and improvised music which is in the air right now. But I don't think that's most…

— John Lurie

Jazz is rhythm and meaning.

— Henri Matisse

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

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

— Sonny Rollins

It's always difficult to define what jazz is or what jazz isn't. To me, the only definition that I can think of is it's…

— David Sanborn

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

Jazz is one of the few things you can do in society and express yourself freely and creatively.

— Mulgrew Miller