Classical music Quote by Van Morrison

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

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 is open enough to borrow from any other form of music, and has the strength to influence any other…

— Herbie Hancock

Jazz is the type of music that can absorb so many things and still be jazz.

— Sonny Rollins

Jazz is rhythm and meaning.

— Henri Matisse

Jazz music by its very nature is just a conglomerate of a lot of different kinds of music.

— David Sanborn

Jazz has borrowed from other genres of music and also has lent itself to other genres of music.

— Herbie Hancock

Jazz is not just music, it's a way of life, it's a way of being, a way of thinking. . . . the new…

— 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 music is a style, not compositions; any kind of music may be played in Jazz if one has the knowledge.

— Jelly Roll Morton

Jazz comes from anywhere the human being has a soul and has a heart.

— Willie Smith

Jazz is people's music, a collectivity.

— Steve Lacy