Amateurs Quote by Steve Miller

The people at Jazz at Lincoln Center are an amazing group and have done a phenomenal job teaching kids and audiences of all ages…

— Steve Miller

Jazz musicians are so comfortable. The reason they can't do what we do is because they're so comfortable doin' what they do.

— Miles Davis

Jazz at Lincoln Center is something that is very necessary for the creative process. There's a couple of brothers running around New York, trying…

— Wayne Shorter

I had not been in the jazz environment, having been brought up in the church. But once I got to New York, and I…

— Aretha Franklin

A respectable-sized audience hasn't really been able to follow developments in jazz since the free jazz movement in the '60s. Some of them can't…

— Harvey Pekar

I think the people who are saying jazz has to sound a particular way, or, 'What you're doing isn't jazz,' are just scared because…

— Robert Glasper

Jazz has to work. It has to play with the audience and with the marketplace. I think that is relevant to business.

— John Kao

Jazz musicians, in a way, are nerds. We are so in our world.

— Jan Vogler

Jazz groups have to make a living any way.

— Lester Bowie

There's a wonderful tradition of jazz people getting on stage and jamming and finding some feeling for music with audiences who may be fresh.…

— Al Jarreau

It's a weird thing where, especially in jazz, you have to totally mention cutting sessions and people one-upping each other and people being super,…

— Damien Chazelle

Many jazz artists go to L.A. seeking a more comfortable life and then they really stop playing.

— Sonny Rollins