Jazz Quotations | Page 4

Jazz is very important. It's not something I can put my finger on. When I'm writing at my favorite time, I like to have the gentle side of Coltrane or Brubeck on the CD player. It creates sort of a spiritual space in which I write best.

Jazz is part of the American fabric. The nation's capital should take the opportunity to celebrate America's music.

Jazz is one of the great, truly native American art forms. Along with the movies, it's probably the art that the rest of the world associates most deeply with America.

Jazz is not dead - it just smells funny

Jazz is cultural music in New Orleans. It's part of the fabric of everyday life, and everybody knows the music. It's always going to be a part of it.

Jazz is a very democratic musical form. It comes out of a communal experience. We take our respective instruments and collectively create a thing of beauty.

Jazz is a music that translates the moment into a sense of inspiration for not only the musicians but for the listeners.

Jazz is a highly disciplined music that is very impatient with people who don't play, well, any sort of lazy imitation that can go with it.

Jazz in New Orleans - that's what the world loves.

Jazz has still not gotten to the point where it is totally, the most, the greatest thing is happening in music.