Horny Quote by Wale

Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music.

— Nina Simone

To most white people, jazz means black and jazz means dirt, and that's not what I play. I play black classical music.

— Nina Simone

All bad jazz sounds like Woody Woodpecker.

— Leo Kottke

The word [jazz] never lost its association with those New Orleans bordellos. In the 1920s I used to try to convince Fletcher Henderson that…

— Duke Ellington

Jazz I regard as an American folk music; not the only one, but a very powerful one which is probably in the blood and…

— George Gershwin

I don't differentiate between country, rock, blues, jazz, it doesn't mean anything to me.

— Everlast

I was competing for attention in a four-piece band that was phenomenal, and I was trying to attack the blues from a kind of…

— Robert Plant

English music is white - it evades everything.

— Edward Elgar

If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know.

— Louis Armstrong

I like what Oliver Lakes does on the saxophone. The saxophone comes pretty close to the sound of the human voice and when Oliver…

— Yusef Komunyakaa

Jazz is like blues with a shot of heroin!

— Miles Davis

Blues and jazz is our American music.

— Leslie Uggams