About yourself Quote by Wynton Marsalis

Certain music, jazz in particular, has the ability to make you a better citizen of the world. It helps you expand your world view…

— Wynton Marsalis

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

Jazz is an interesting music. It's one of the few forms of music where everyone that's performing the music has a creative stake in…

— Kamasi Washington

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

— Mulgrew Miller

Jazz is improvisation and syncopation, with resilience and flow, with earthy elegance, nuance and subtlety, with the integrity of individual expression within (usually) a…

— Greg Thomas

Jazz is really about the human experience. It’s about the ability of human beings to take the worst of circumstances and struggles and turn…

— Herbie Hancock

It doesn't matter if it's jazz or not. It's about how we listen, how we interact, how we guide our attention when we're listening,…

— Vijay Iyer

The point of jazz is, you do something and then you go on.

— Van Morrison

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

I love jazz. So to me, there are two main types of jazz. There's dancing jazz, and then there's listening jazz. Listening jazz is…

— Lupe Fiasco

As far as I'm concerned, the essentials of jazz are: melodic improvisation, melodic invention, swing, and instrumental personality.

— Mose Allison

Jazz exemplifies artistic activity that is at once individual and communal, performance that is both repetitive and innovative, each participant sometimes providing background support…

— Mary Catherine Bateson