I've got wide tastes, but I don't like jazz.

That's the kind of musical freedom I like: jazz, rock, blues, anything. You adopt different attitudes when you play different music.

— Alvin Lee

That's kind of like how jazz is sometimes. You're out there predicting the future, and no one believes you.

— Branford Marsalis

We've played so many places where, if you asked people, 'Do you like jazz?' they would be like, 'Not at all.' But I think…

— Kamasi Washington

I play it Kool, gettin to tour just like a jazz player. Your record player ain't nothin without the funky rhyme sayer.

— Kool G Rap

Life is a lot like jazz... it's best when you improvise.

— George Gershwin

What kills me is that everybody thinks I like Jazz.

— Samuel L. Jackson

One thing I like about jazz is that it emphasized doing things differently from what other people were doing.

— Herbie Hancock

Tastes are created by the business interests. How else can you explain the popularity of Al Hirt?

— Charles Mingus

That's what I don't like about magic. It does everything by magic.

— Terry Pratchett

The E Street band casts a pretty wide net. Our influences go all the way back to the early primitive garage music, and also,…

— Bruce Springsteen

To me, 'Blue Like Jazz' is a quintessential American story. So many people are just like Don - raised Christian and go off to…

— Marshall Allman

I like contemporary American literature and I like biographies and I like jazz and I like baseball and I like writers who write about…

— Jonathan Frakes

Diplomacy is like jazz: endless variations on a theme.

— Richard Holbrooke

I'd love to act. I feel that it's another naked, mysterious challenge, like jazz. It kind of intrigues me in the same way.

— Paula Cole

I like mellow music. I like some jazz. But I'm not a big hard rock guy.

— Gary Carter