Concerned Quote by Sonny Rollins

Jazz is an art form that depends on its antecedents, there must be respect for the people that have gone before.

— Jon Hendricks

The value of jazz still has to be clarified. People involve themselves with its superficialities without digging for its soul.

— Stan Getz

Jazz is the last refuge of the untalented. Jazz musicians enjoy themselves more than anyone listening to them does.

— Tony Wilson

People think jazz music is all standards and the Great American Songbook. But it's really about the sensibility, the feel you bring to the…

— Dianne Reeves

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

If a jazz player is really playing, the classical player will have to respect him.

— Wes Montgomery

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

— Pat Metheny

“In a society of increasingly mass-produced, assembly-line entertainment, where every individual is treated like an empty pitcher to be filled from above, jazz retains…

— Marshall Stearns

Jazz musicians have always taken the standards of their time and performed them with a jazz sensibility.

— Dianne Reeves

Many jazz musicians affect a misunderstood-genius air when they play, which alienates the audience and breaks down the communications of the music. A musician's…

— Gabor Szabo

The beauty of jazz is that it's malleable. People are addressing it to suit their own personalities.

— Pat Metheny

Jazz is music made by and for people who have chosen to feel good in spite of conditions.

— Johnny Griffin