Goals Quote by Wynton Marsalis

There are wonderful things in Jazz, the improvisation, the liveliness, the being at one with the audience.

— Henri Matisse

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

— Henry Threadgill

The jazz musician’s function is to feel,

— Lennie Tristano

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

— Nina Simone

The genius of our country is improvisation, and jazz reflects that. It's our great contribution to the arts.

— Ken Burns

Jazz music creates so many phenomenal figures.

— Wynton Marsalis

“Jazz was about the spaces between notes. It was about what happened when you listened to the thing inside you. The gaps and the…

— Rachel Joyce

Jazz is a music that really allows a person to express his deepest self, his most personal self - Africa being the primary source…

— Harold Land

“And the thing about jazz, through all the business involved in practicing and improvement, it's always sweet: the improvement that you notice in the…

— Wynton Marsalis

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 music celebrates life! Human life; the range of it, the absurdity of it, the ignorance of it, the greatness of it, the intelligence…

— Wynton Marsalis

“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