Alphabet Quote by Stan Getz

Anyone who understands Jazz knows that you can't understand it. It's too complicated. That's what's so simple about it.

— Yogi Berra

People need to realize that even the greatest jazz musicians, when they listen to jazz, they're not like, analyzing it and deconstructing it -…

— Kamasi Washington

Jazz has a lot to do with being very present. You know the structure, then you flow through it.

— Lizz Wright

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

— Nina Simone

The whole thing you're taught in jazz is the spontaneity of it. That's what I really love about jazz.

— Stan Getz

It's always fun to talk about jazz.

— Clint Eastwood

In jazz, you listen to what the bass player is doing and what the drummer is doing, what the pianist and the guitarist is…

— David Amram

I don't have a definition of Jazz. You're just supposed to know it when you hear it.

— Thelonious Monk

Jazz is really about the human experience. It’s about the ability of human beings to take the worst of circumstances and struggles and turn…

— Herbie Hancock

Jazz music is a language of the emotions.

— Charles Mingus

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

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

— Van Morrison