Dare Quote by Wayne Shorter

Jazz is about freedom within discipline. Usually a dictatorship like in Russia and Germany will prevent jazz from being played because it just seemed…

— Dave Brubeck

The main thing about the word jazz, is that it's very limiting to what people are doing.

— Eldar Djangirov

Nobody has ever been able to define Jazz satisfactorily. This is probably because anyone who was capable of doing so never really wanted to,…

— Mary Kingsley

It's not jazz as we know jazz here in America.

— Les Paul

Jazz is a very democratic musical form. It comes out of a communal experience. We take our respective instruments and collectively create a thing…

— Max Roach

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

— Thelonious Monk

Jazz is a democratic musical form. We take our respective instruments & collectively create a thing of beauty.

— Max Roach

Jazz is democracy in music.

— Wynton Marsalis

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

— Fats Waller

Jazz isn't as profitable for labels like Hip hop or Rap. Jazz needs subsidies to continue, just like European classical works of Bach and…

— Jimmy Heath

Jazz is an art form that depends on its antecedents, there must be respect for the people that have gone before.

— Jon Hendricks

Jazz stands for freedom. It's supposed to be the voice of freedom: Get out there and improvise, and take chances, and don't be a…

— Dave Brubeck