Feels Quote by Van Morrison

I grew up in the funk, rock and roll, blues and r&b tradition, and I came to this thing we call jazz later. And…

— Hamid Drake

Jazz music is all about performance, right? At least, to me, it's about the freedom of performance, the different inflections you do in the…

— Laufey

Jazz is improvisation and syncopation, with resilience and flow, with earthy elegance, nuance and subtlety, with the integrity of individual expression within (usually) a…

— Greg Thomas

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

— Nina Simone

If you go back to the roots of jazz, it was all about COLLECTIVE improvisation.

— Henry Threadgill

Jazz is rhythm and meaning.

— Henri Matisse

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

You're just sort of searching for this 'thing' and sometimes you get it and sometimes you don't. All music is imperfect, but in jazz…

— John Abercrombie

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

— Thelonious Monk

Maybe a part of me recognized how right the improvising spirit of jazz is. Not the sounds, but the freedom to work with musicians…

— Jane Siberry

Jazz exemplifies artistic activity that is at once individual and communal, performance that is both repetitive and innovative, each participant sometimes providing background support…

— Mary Catherine Bateson

Jazz is letting everybody do his or her thing with the music.

— Percy Heath