Abstract Quote by Romare Bearden

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 one of the few things you can do in society and express yourself freely and creatively.

— Mulgrew Miller

I don't think that jazz, as any kind of an art form, has any permanence attached to it, apart from the practitioners of it.

— Norman Granz

Jazz is such a living art form. It happens right in the moment. You weave a story by changing certain elements and components.

— Dianne Reeves

Jazz is about the only form of art existing today in which there is freedom of the individual without the loss of group contact.

— Dave Brubeck

If you go back to the roots of jazz, it was all about COLLECTIVE improvisation.

— Henry Threadgill

I think jazz is the foundation for a lot of great musicians, and then after that, you know, it's this broad expression of things…

— Dianne Reeves

Jazz music is all about performance, right? At least, to me, it's about the freedom of performance, the different inflections you do in the…

— Laufey

The only element of jazz that I keep is improvisation.

— Jan Garbarek

I think jazz is a phenomenal creative force, because it's one man, one vote as you're playing, but it's a collective thing, what you're…

— Herb Alpert

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

Jazz is really about the human experience. It’s about the ability of human beings to take the worst of circumstances and struggles and turn…

— Herbie Hancock