Good Quote by Robert Christgau

Jazz is very important. It's not something I can put my finger on. When I'm writing at my favorite time, I like to have…

— Miller Williams

I've mainly been sampling jazz because the tone of the chords are expressive in itself, so it's quite nice to write over. It's got…

— King Krule

Jazz doesn't have much to do with how I write songs, but I am a big fan. My favorites are Oscar Peterson, Ahmad Jamal,…

— Timothy B. Schmit

I've mainly been sampling jazz because the tone of the chords are expressive in itself, so it's quite nice to write over.

— King Krule

I wasn't a jazz player, but a classical musician, and I improvised arrangements of popular songs using classical motifs.

— Nina Simone

In Jazz, improvisation isn't a matter of just making any ol' thing up. Jazz, like any language, has its own grammer and vocabulary. There's…

— Wynton Marsalis

I would say I take a lot of inspiration from jazz and I borrow a lot of principles from it and classical music. Both…

— Laufey

I feel that Jazz improvisation is the ultimate. You have to create on the spot, the essence of this music.

— Sonny Rollins

Jazz is an interesting music. It's one of the few forms of music where everyone that's performing the music has a creative stake in…

— Kamasi Washington

The only element of jazz that I keep is improvisation.

— Jan Garbarek

I don't think I've ever been true to jazz. There's always a kind of jazz element to what I do. There are a very…

— Jamie Cullum

Jazz songs have always been quite literal because many of them are taken from musical theater and you only have a couple of moments…

— Laufey