Inspirational Quote by Sonny Rollins

Jazz music celebrates life! Human life; the range of it, the absurdity of it, the ignorance of it, the greatness of it, the intelligence…

— Wynton Marsalis

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 people's music, a collectivity.

— Steve Lacy

Jazz to me is a living music. It's a music that since its beginning has expressed the feelings, the dreams, hopes, of the people.

— Dexter Gordon

Jazz to me is a living music.

— Dexter Gordon

Jazz comes from our way of life, and because it's our national art form, it helps us to understand who we are.

— Wynton Marsalis

Jazz comes from anywhere the human being has a soul and has a heart.

— Willie Smith

Jazz is not just music, it's a way of life, it's a way of being, a way of thinking. . . . the new…

— Nina Simone

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

— Ray Brown

Jazz music by its very nature is just a conglomerate of a lot of different kinds of music.

— David Sanborn

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 America's past and its potential, summed up and sanctified and accessible to anybody who learns to listen to, feel, and understand…

— Wynton Marsalis