"The thing to judge in any jazz artist is, does the man project and does he have ideas."- Miles Davis
"Jazz is like wine. When it is new it's only for the experts, but when it gets older everybody wants it."- Steve Lacy
"As long as there are musicians who have a passion for spontaneity, for creating something that's never been before, the art form of jazz will flourish."- Charlie Haden
"You had many jazz musicians who lived in the United States, who had a hard time being accepted over here and had to play in sort of these inferior type dives."- Sonny Rollins
"If I am playing any music at all it is jazz music."- Ginger Baker
"Jazz today, as always in the past, is a matter of thoughtful creation, not mere unaided instinct."- Duke Eilington
"That's kind of like how jazz is sometimes. You're out there predicting the future, and no one believes you."- Branford Marsalis
"It takes an intelligent ear to listen to Jazz."- Art Blakely
"We're having a hard time understanding where jazz is going. What happened to jazz?"- Ken Burns
"Jazz is about being in the moment."- Herbie Hancock
"The point of jazz is, you do something and then you go on."- Van Morrison
"Jazz is the last refuge of the untalented. Jazz musicians enjoy themselves more than anyone listening to them does."- Tony Wilson
"The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician. Things like old folks singing in the moonlight in the back yard on a hot night or something said long ago."- Louis Armstrong
"Jazz does not belong to one race or culture, but is a gift that America has given the world."- Ahmad Alaadeen
"I don't know where jazz is going. Maybe it's going to hell. You can't make anything go anywhere. It just happens."- Thelonious Monk
"Jazz was not only built in the minds of the great ones, but on the backs of the ordinary ones."- Cab Calloway
"The beauty of jazz is that it's malleable. People are addressing it to suit their own personalities. "- Pat Metheny
"Just because I'm playing jazz I don't forget about me. I play or write me, the way I feel, through jazz, or whatever."- Charles Mingus
"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 perfectionist - leave that to the classical musicians."- Dave Breubek
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