Country Quote by Wayne Shorter

The most important thing about Jazz at Lincoln Center is the fact that it's the first time that perhaps the most important art form…

— Rafael Vinoly

New York is the dream world, the center of jazz and rock

— Gyorgy Ligeti

The people at Jazz at Lincoln Center are an amazing group and have done a phenomenal job teaching kids and audiences of all ages…

— Steve Miller

We are serious about our music here in Philadelphia, and jazz has meant a lot to this city.

— Michael Nutter

New York seems conducted by jazz, animated by it. It is essentially a city of rhythm.

— Anais Nin

I have always loved jazz music and as a teen growing up in New York City and then later on as an adult have…

— Tony Bennett

Jazz has to work. It has to play with the audience and with the marketplace. I think that is relevant to business.

— John Kao

I'm really getting to appreciate traditional jazz now - the New Orleans stuff - a lot more than I did before.

— John Goodman

I visited New York in '63, intending to move there, but I noticed that what I valued about jazz was being discarded. I ran…

— Joe Sample

Dealing with Jazz at Lincoln Center and its board of directors, who are so great, and then seeing how these Rock Hall guys operate,…

— Steve Miller

“The structure of a jazz performance is, like that of the New York skyline, a tension of cross-purposes. In jazz at its characteristic best,…

— Anonymous

Jazz is one of the few things you can do in society and express yourself freely and creatively.

— Mulgrew Miller