Always Quote by Pat Metheny

Jazz translates the moment into a sense of inspiration for not only the musicians but for the listeners.

— Herbie Hancock

Jazz is such a living art form. It happens right in the moment. You weave a story by changing certain elements and components.

— Dianne Reeves

Jazz is a sideways glance at music. It's like being an architect, knowing the basis of design but understanding that the facade can be…

— Melody Gardot

Jazz music is America's past and its potential, summed up and sanctified and accessible to anybody who learns to listen to, feel, and understand…

— Wynton Marsalis

Jazz is such a powerful cultural statement that it's almost as if it's intertwined with society.

— Tom Harrell

Whenever there's a change with Jazz & its aesthetics, it's almost always reflected with a change in the culture.

— Tom Harrell

Jazz exemplifies artistic activity that is at once individual and communal, performance that is both repetitive and innovative, each participant sometimes providing background support…

— Mary Catherine Bateson

Jazz comes from our way of life, and because it's our national art form, it helps us to understand who we are.

— Wynton Marsalis

Jazz is the false liquidation of art - instead of utopia becoming reality it disappears from the picture.

— Anonymous

Jazz vision is the fusion of music and art a real paradox of same-yet different. Here we play in exchanges, like the hardness of…

— Barbara Januszkiewicz

Jazz is improvisation and syncopation, with resilience and flow, with earthy elegance, nuance and subtlety, with the integrity of individual expression within (usually) a…

— Greg Thomas

Jazz music creates so many phenomenal figures.

— Wynton Marsalis