Audience Quote by Pat Metheny

So much of Jazz doesn't have an audience other than music students or musicians.

— Branford Marsalis

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

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

— Pat Metheny

The chief trouble with jazz is that there is not enough of it; some of it we have to listen to twice.

— Don Herold

Jazz, isn't that just a series of mistakes diguised as musical composition?

— Michael McKean

A lot of jazz artists think people should like what they're doing just because it's jazz. I don't buy that.

— Pat Metheny

The average age of the Jazz audience is increasing rapidly. Rapidly enough to suggest that there is no replacement among young people. Young people…

— Terry Teachout

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

— Nina Simone

As long as there are people trying to play music in a sincere way, there will be some jazz.

— Lee Konitz

I'm aware that a lot of what is happening in jazz has not had a very dynamic change in a long time.

— Herbie Hancock

A respectable-sized audience hasn't really been able to follow developments in jazz since the free jazz movement in the '60s. Some of them can't…

— Harvey Pekar

I feel like certain people think that certain styles of music will taint their jazz style.

— Robert Glasper