Art Quote by Wynton Marsalis

Jazz comes from our way of life, and because it's our national art form, it helps us to understand who we are.

— Wynton Marsalis

Jazz, and the history of jazz, is the history of America.

— Ron Cephas Jones

Jazz music is America's past and its potential, summed up and sanctified and accessible to anybody who learns to listen to, feel, and understand…

— Wynton Marsalis

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

— Jon Hendricks

Jazz is an idea that is more powerful than the details of its history.

— Pat Metheny

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

— Tom Harrell

I think jazz is the foundation for a lot of great musicians, and then after that, you know, it's this broad expression of things…

— Dianne Reeves

What I love about jazz is that it's full of legends, full of myths. It's an oral history because it started in New Orleans…

— Damien Chazelle

Jazz is an art that takes decades to appreciate and understand.

— Jake Shimabukuro

I still love the whole history of Jazz. The old things sound better than ever.

— Steve Lacy

In a way, the history of jazz's development is a small mirror of classical music's development through the centuries. Now jazz is a living…

— Mike Figgis

In times of change and uncertainty, we need the spirit of jazz more than ever before, to bring people - especially young women and…

— Irina Bokova