Artist Quote by Steve Lacy

In my view a jazz musician is a great musician

— Michael Parkinson

A jazz musician is not a jazz musician when he or she is eating dinner or when he or she is with his parents…

— Herbie Hancock

I'm not a jazz artist. Don't get me wrong now, it's all music to me. I just played music and if it's likeable, someone…

— Pharoah Sanders

It doesn't matter if it's jazz or not. It's about how we listen, how we interact, how we guide our attention when we're listening,…

— Vijay Iyer

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 a music that really allows a person to express his deepest self, his most personal self - Africa being the primary source…

— Harold Land

Jazz is a very democratic musical form. It comes out of a communal experience. We take our respective instruments and collectively create a thing…

— Max Roach

Jazz is an interesting music. It's one of the few forms of music where everyone that's performing the music has a creative stake in…

— Kamasi Washington

As a jazz musician, you have individual power to create the sound. You also have a responsibility to function in the context of other…

— Wynton Marsalis

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

I don't think of myself as a jazz musician but a medicine man.

— Abdullah Ibrahim

Jazz musicians are spiritual by nature.

— John Densmore