Certain Quote by Robert Glasper

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

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

There's a jazz influence in my music in general.

— Alexandre Desplat

There's more bad music in jazz than any other form. Maybe that's because the audience doesn't really know what's happening.

— Pat Metheny

I think people psych themselves out before they listen to jazz a lot, thinking that they have to, like, put on a suit or…

— Kamasi Washington

People think jazz music is all standards and the Great American Songbook. But it's really about the sensibility, the feel you bring to the…

— Dianne Reeves

The beauty of jazz is that it's malleable. People are addressing it to suit their own personalities.

— Pat Metheny

My own feelings about the direction in which jazz should go are that there should be much less stress on technical exhibitionism and much…

— Booker Little

Whenever there's a change with Jazz & its aesthetics, it's almost always reflected with a change in the culture.

— Tom Harrell

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

— Nina Simone

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

— Sonny Rollins

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

— Stan Getz