Crazy Quote by Robert Glasper

“And the thing about jazz, through all the business involved in practicing and improvement, it's always sweet: the improvement that you notice in the…

— Wynton Marsalis

Man, I just feel so fortunate to be a jazz musician at all. I have a hard time thinking of it any other way.…

— Kurt Elling

You need better technique than I have to play jazz, but what you have to do is the same thing, isn't it?

— Charlie Watts

If I'm not a jazz player all the time, I've at least been cued in to what I do by jazz.

— Keith Jarrett

I fear that I won't get better and that I won't have time to practice. To be called a "jazz musician" - it's a…

— Esperanza Spalding

I've never set out to do anything other than get better at guitar and record and have fun. I feel like the Jazzmaster's just…

— Adam Granduciel

I think that people should learn about that. In most music, there's one way that you do something, and that's the only way. In…

— Billy Higgins

Jazz was more of a tool for me to use to enhance my musicality.

— John Otto

Maybe a part of me recognized how right the improvising spirit of jazz is. Not the sounds, but the freedom to work with musicians…

— Jane Siberry

My strength is to communicate with an audience and to know what jazz singing is capable of.

— Kurt Elling

I'm a jazz performer - I have to improvise with what I'm given.

— Apollo Robbins

The jazz musician’s function is to feel,

— Lennie Tristano