Alone Quote by Peter Capaldi

Jazz is about the only form of art existing today in which there is freedom of the individual without the loss of group contact.

— Dave Brubeck

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 is the type of music that can absorb so many things and still be jazz.

— Sonny Rollins

It's a mystery to me why everybody doesn't love jazz. I've never been able to figure that out.

— Walter Becker

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

— Nina Simone

I used to be just a total jazz freak. People used to say, 'Where's the melody? Is there a melody in there anywhere?' Now…

— Glen Campbell

Jazz can be a blank canvas full of possibilities.

— Barbara Januszkiewicz

Jazz is the last refuge of the untalented. Jazz musicians enjoy themselves more than anyone listening to them does.

— Tony Wilson

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 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

A melody without the right rhythm hardly exists.

— Rokia Traore

At this time the fashion is to bring something to jazz that I reject. They speak of freedom. But one has no right, under…

— Thelonious Monk