Age Quote by Paula Cole

I was totally into jazz in my teens.

— Andy Summers

One thing that sticks in my mind is that jazz means freedom and openness. It's a music that, although it developed out of the…

— Herbie Hancock

One thing I like about jazz is that it emphasized doing things differently from what other people were doing.

— Herbie Hancock

[Jazz] is a music of freedom and wonder. It's our indigenous art form, and I'm still blessed to travel around the world and people…

— Charles Lloyd

I think jazz is the foundation for a lot of great musicians, and then after that, you know, it's this broad expression of things…

— Dianne Reeves

Growing up, I was very much interested in jazz music.

— Jan Hammer

What I love about jazz is that it's full of legends, full of myths. It's an oral history because it started in New Orleans…

— Damien Chazelle

I didn't really think I liked jazz all that much until I was about 18. That's when the freedom and possibilities of it began…

— Brian Stokes Mitchell

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

It's something that - jazz is one of the few things that you can go and listen to, I don't care where you're from,…

— Billy Higgins

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 came out of New Orleans, and that was the forerunner of everything. You mix jazz with European rhythms, and that's rock n' roll,…

— The Edge