Armstrong Quote by 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

It's very rare that you get very old jazz lovers and super-young hip-hop lovers at the same exact show, when you think about it.…

— Robert Glasper

The average age of the Jazz audience is increasing rapidly. Rapidly enough to suggest that there is no replacement among young people. Young people…

— Terry Teachout

So much of Jazz doesn't have an audience other than music students or musicians.

— Branford 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

Jazz needs the help. It's the more sophisticated music. All the other music is on the TV, but jazz isn't.

— Billy Higgins

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

The chief trouble with jazz is that there is not enough of it; some of it we have to listen to twice.

— Don Herold

I think you have to have a jazz pedigree to be on jazz radio.

— Rita Coolidge

You have to enjoy playing. The old-timers did, and that's one reason why their music is a lasting music. I feel that I play…

— Barry Harris

I always say that the problem with jazz accessibility is not the content of the music, it's people's ability to access it.

— Esperanza Spalding

Jazz is like wine. When it is new it's only for the experts, but when it gets older everybody wants it.

— Steve Lacy