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I'm aware that a lot of what is happening in jazz has not had a very dynamic change in a long time.

— Herbie Hancock

Jazz is the big brother of Revolution. Revolution follows it around.

— Miles Davis

Within the context of Western music, jazz has always contained certain radical or revolutionary aspects. These are: improvisation, collective composition and individuality or the…

— Michael Snow

If you go back to the roots of jazz, it was all about COLLECTIVE improvisation.

— Henry Threadgill

When I sort of step in my jazz world, it's somewhere between instrumental jazz and vocal jazz.

— Jose James

Whenever there's a change with Jazz & its aesthetics, it's almost always reflected with a change in the culture.

— Tom Harrell

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

Jazz was the beginning of rhythm music, which developed into rock and roll. But what the jazz musicians lost because they were so far…

— Fela Kuti

Change is always happening. That's one of the wonderful things about Jazz music.

— Maynard Ferguson

In a way, the history of jazz's development is a small mirror of classical music's development through the centuries. Now jazz is a living…

— Mike Figgis

Jazz music creates so many phenomenal figures.

— Wynton Marsalis

I don't separate one era of jazz from another, because I listen to everybody... Everybody takes from everybody else and adds their own thing…

— Sonny Criss