Democracy Quote by Wynton Marsalis

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

— Max Roach

There's so much spirit of integration and democracy in jazz.

— Wynton Marsalis

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

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

Like democracy itself, jazz has structure, but within it you can say almost anything.

— Susan Rice

Jazz music is the power of now.

— Wynton Marsalis

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

— Nina Simone

As long as there is democracy, there will be people wanting to play jazz because nothing else will ever so perfectly capture the democratic…

— Wynton Marsalis

Jazz is people's music, a collectivity.

— Steve Lacy

Jazz is America's own. It is played and listened to by all peoples - in harmony together. Pigmentation differences have no place... as in…

— Norman Granz

Jazz is such a powerful cultural statement that it's almost as if it's intertwined with society.

— Tom Harrell

“Today you go into make a modern recording with all this technology. The bass plays first, then the drums come in later, then they…

— Wynton Marsalis