Ifs Quote by Pete Fountain

You know, it's funny... when you're making money, people don't think you're playing jazz. Now when you're not making money, people think that you're…

— Pete Fountain

Jazz isn't what you do; it's how you do it.

— Fats Waller

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

Jazz isn't like pop, where you sell millions of records with a hit. Your spirit and soul aren't important in pop music. But jazz…

— Freddie Hubbard

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

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

The point of jazz is, you do something and then you go on.

— Van Morrison

The value of jazz still has to be clarified. People involve themselves with its superficialities without digging for its soul.

— Stan Getz

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

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

— Nina Simone

Jazz has to work. It has to play with the audience and with the marketplace. I think that is relevant to business.

— John Kao

The reward for playing jazz is playing jazz.

— John Lewis