Call me Quote by Patricia Barber

People think jazz music is all standards and the Great American Songbook. But it's really about the sensibility, the feel you bring to the…

— Dianne Reeves

There aren't any labels - all jazz means is improvization and you can never play a tune the same way twice. So jazz spills…

— Van Morrison

I don't play the traditional Charlie Parker songs. But I do improvise and I do create with my instrument, and that to me is…

— Kenny G

Jazz music, as is also the case with the old down-home spirituals, gospel and jubilee songs, jumps, shouts and moans, is essentially an American…

— Albert Murray

Jazz is not something that can be defined through blunt instruments. It is much more poetic than that.

— Pat Metheny

If you play the very subtle jazz tunes with acoustic pianos, acoustic bass and it's a dead standard, you are going to play very…

— Lee Ritenour

The whole point is, give me a break with the standards. You go to the average jazz label and suggest a record and they…

— Branford Marsalis

I think everybody has to kind of decide what the word 'jazz' means to them, and that's fine.

— Kenny G

What happens when an art form becomes ambiguous, I think, is that the standards are lowered. You can say anything is jazz. So I…

— Stefon Harris

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

— Lee Konitz

Jazz musicians have always taken the standards of their time and performed them with a jazz sensibility.

— Dianne Reeves

There are a lot of records coming out, in every field of music, not just jazz.

— Herbie Hancock