Chaos Quote by Pep Guardiola

It's not easy to play in a framework that requires simplicity and to tastefully find ways to interject the kind of freedom that we…

— Herbie Hancock

Jazz is freedom. You think about that.

— Thelonious Monk

I feel that I have an obligation to jazz and also to myself to play as good as I can play.

— Sonny Rollins

I can only be me. I do what I do, I'm not a jazz player. ... I don't play jazz standards, at least not…

— Jorma Kaukonen

Jazz is something that's constantly changing. Its sole purpose is to let people improvise, to let them solo differently each time they play. And…

— Allan Holdsworth

Jazz is not just 'Well, man, this is what I feel like playing.' It's a very structured thing that comes down from a tradition…

— Wynton Marsalis

If a jazz player is really playing, the classical player will have to respect him.

— Wes Montgomery

Jazz musicians are so comfortable. The reason they can't do what we do is because they're so comfortable doin' what they do.

— Miles Davis

I wouldn't call myself a jazz player or a blues player.

— Dickey Betts

As long as there is democracy, there will be people wanting to play jazz because nothing else will ever so perfectly capture the democratic…

— Wynton Marsalis

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

If I'm not a jazz player all the time, I've at least been cued in to what I do by jazz.

— Keith Jarrett