Feels Quote by Sonny Rollins

Jazz is not just 'Well, man, this is what I feel like playing.' It's a very structured thing that comes down from a tradition…

— Wynton Marsalis

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 can only be me. I do what I do, I'm not a jazz player. ... I don't play jazz standards, at least not…

— Jorma Kaukonen

Jazz is what I play for a living.

— Louis Armstrong

Jazz is something that you have to feel. It's something that you have to live.

— Ray Brown

Jazz isn't what you do; it's how you do it.

— Fats Waller

Jazz demands that you bring to it things that are valuable to you, that are personal to you.

— Pat Metheny

Jazz is something you have to feel, something you have to live.

— Ray Brown

In order to play jazz, you have to be able to play the blues.

— Robert Cray

Jazz is a part of me.

— Kamasi Washington

The point of jazz is, you do something and then you go on.

— Van Morrison

Jazz is played from the heart. You can even live by it. Always love it.

— Louis Armstrong