Art Quote by Stan Getz

As far as playing jazz, no other art form, other than conversation, can give the satisfaction of spontaneous interaction.

— Stan Getz

Interaction is what jazz music is all about.

— Stan Getz

Jazz is one of the few things you can do in society and express yourself freely and creatively.

— Mulgrew Miller

Jazz is about the only form of art existing today in which there is freedom of the individual without the loss of group contact.

— Dave Brubeck

Whatever it is, music should sound spontaneous, I've derived a great deal of pleasure from playing jazz and having the knowledge of that spontaneity.

— Julian Bream

Any art communicates what you're in the mood to receive.

— Larry Rivers

There are wonderful things in Jazz, the improvisation, the liveliness, the being at one with the audience.

— Henri Matisse

I believe that any art communicates what you're in the mood to receive.

— Larry Rivers

Jazz is such a living art form. It happens right in the moment. You weave a story by changing certain elements and components.

— Dianne Reeves

It's good for art to make us think, to give us a shared experience that creates a dialogue, makes us talk to each other,…

— Janet Echelman

The real power of Jazz is that a group of people can come together and create improvised art and negotiate their agendas... and that…

— Wynton Marsalis

I don't think that jazz, as any kind of an art form, has any permanence attached to it, apart from the practitioners of it.

— Norman Granz