Age Quote by Sonny Rollins

Fitzgerald coined the phrase the 'Jazz Age,' and now we're living in the Hip-Hop Age.

— Baz Luhrmann

I still find it hard to believe that the whole era of jazz is over.

— Sam Shepard

I worry more about the marketing that's taken hold since the 70s. The Jazz era, the Swing era, those were huge. Entire decades were…

— Wynton Marsalis

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

— Toots Thielemans

I can't imagine my life without the extraordinary bebop jazz revolution in New York in late '40s and '50s.

— Robert Wyatt

I still love the whole history of Jazz. The old things sound better than ever.

— Steve Lacy

The history of jazz for the last 45 years has come through the Monterey Jazz Festival stages. I think there's developed a legacy and…

— Tim Jackson

Jazz is an art that takes decades to appreciate and understand.

— Jake Shimabukuro

I felt quite frankly having been raised during the depression and looking back at the roaring twenties, the jazz age, which was a very…

— Hugh Hefner

“In a decade that would become known as the Roaring Twenties, a “Jazz Age” glamorized in the works of authors like F. Scott Fitzgerald,…

— Charles River Editors

Though the Jazz Age continued, it became less and less of an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children's party taken over…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.

— Paul Whiteman