Jazz Quote by Van Morrison

It's a mystery to me why everybody doesn't love jazz. I've never been able to figure that out.

— Walter Becker

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

— Nina Simone

Jazz isn't what you do; it's how you do it.

— Fats Waller

The chief trouble with jazz is that there is not enough of it; some of it we have to listen to twice.

— Don Herold

Anyone who understands Jazz knows that you can't understand it. It's too complicated. That's what's so simple about it.

— Yogi Berra

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

— David Sanborn

I don't have a definition of Jazz. You're just supposed to know it when you hear it.

— Thelonious Monk

Jazz, isn't that just a series of mistakes diguised as musical composition?

— Michael McKean

What I came back to is that jazz is a music to be played and not to be intellectualized on.

— Gerry Mulligan

The way jazz works is that we take a theme, and then we write using the same structure, same chord changes, and then we…

— Tommy Chong

Jazz has a lot to do with being very present. You know the structure, then you flow through it.

— Lizz Wright

I think that people should learn about that. In most music, there's one way that you do something, and that's the only way. In…

— Billy Higgins