Hip hop 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

That's the thing: There are so many art songs in jazz. It's a much more rich experience for the singer than people think.

— Kurt Elling

When I have to compete with John Coltrane and Miles Davis and Louie Armstrong on iTunes, which I'm doing now, that's a problem. That…

— Robert Glasper

A respectable-sized audience hasn't really been able to follow developments in jazz since the free jazz movement in the '60s. Some of them can't…

— Harvey Pekar

I have to plead basic ignorance of most new jazz artists here.

— Gary Lucas

I think we're an inspiration to young people, to know they can be honest and not run away from influences that are not jazz.…

— Robert Glasper

I don't separate one era of jazz from another, because I listen to everybody... Everybody takes from everybody else and adds their own thing…

— Sonny Criss

People like Art Blakey and Buddy Rich, you look at them playing music, and it's just like looking at a heavy metal drummer. I…

— Damien Chazelle

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

— Walter Becker

Jazz celebrates older generations and not just the youth movement. When you 'sell' only to people of a certain age, you get cut off…

— Wynton Marsalis

Jazz is like a big secret club. The mainstream media doesn't pay any attention to it, it's like 1 percent of the music market…

— Robert Glasper

I think as long as people are around and can hear a record and hear people like Lester Young on a recording, there will…

— Sonny Rollins