Achieve Quote by Randy Sandke

If you didn't have the amalgam of Blacks and African-type sensibility and European sensibility, you wouldn't have jazz. Even in the negative and in…

— Wynton Marsalis

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

Jazz is a racist musical form invented by whites to enslave blacks.

— Lyndon LaRouche

“This development signified also that jazz would someday have to contend with the idea of its being an art (since that was the white…

— Anonymous

Jazz does not belong to one race or culture, but is a gift that America has given the world.

— Ahmad Alaadeen

Jazz is America's own. It is played and listened to by all peoples - in harmony together. Pigmentation differences have no place... as in…

— Norman Granz

All the jazz guys had interracial relationships, and even the ladies did. Over the years, interracial relationships have been a hip, almost defiant thing,…

— Quincy Jones

Jazz came from the streets, hip-hop came from the streets. It's just a different language. It's all borne out of hard times, struggle, and…

— DJ Premier

Jazz is an art form that depends on its antecedents, there must be respect for the people that have gone before.

— Jon Hendricks

It was a particularly interesting and exciting time, and the European political and artistic establishment was turned on by the Civil Rights Movement and…

— Archie Shepp

Black people invented jazz. But this story [in La La Land] wasn't ever claiming to be that. It's just a story about two people…

— John Legend

Jazz is such a powerful cultural statement that it's almost as if it's intertwined with society.

— Tom Harrell