Art Quote by Sonny Rollins

Jazz came out of New Orleans, and that was the forerunner of everything. You mix jazz with European rhythms, and that's rock n' roll,…

— The Edge

There's been this perception that Europeans still hold on to, that they discover the real talented ones in American culture and give them proper…

— Andrew Bird

Today jazz is still very much alive. Everywhere I go there's a new generation of musicians.

— Toots Thielemans

Jazz is very much alive. Everywhere I go there's a new generation of musicians playing Jazz music.

— Toots Thielemans

Jazz is known all over the world as an American musical art form and that's it. No America, no jazz. I've seen people try…

— Art Blakey

What I love about jazz is that it's full of legends, full of myths. It's an oral history because it started in New Orleans…

— Damien Chazelle

In jazz, there is a lot of European influence harmonically.

— Dexter Gordon

One of the things that's clear to me from interviews that I've read is that the more popular successful jazz musicians had audiences above…

— Branford Marsalis

You had many jazz musicians who lived in the United States, who had a hard time being accepted over here and had to play…

— Sonny Rollins

Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.

— Paul Whiteman

I think jazz was just seeking respect and validity because a lot of people didn't believe it was a viable art form, and then…

— Andrew Bird

In Europe they look upon jazz as art. In America it's a diversion. Somebody opens a restaurant and installs another band off to the…

— Chet Baker