I can turn on some jazz guitarist, and he won't do a thing for me, if he's not playing electrically. But Jeff Beck's great to listen to.
Ritchie Blackmore

We're having a hard time understanding where jazz is going. What happened to jazz?
Ken Burns

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

I think jazz is good, but I don't enjoy it. It's not for me.
Ted Rall

Jazz is a very accurate, curiously accurate accompaniment to 20th century America.
Ken Burns

A jazz beat is a dynamic changing rhythm.
Ken Burns

There are singers that I have enjoyed, from Nina Simone and Ray Charles onward. But the music that made music the number one thing for me as a youth was jazz.
Robert Wyatt

I think my knowledge of music theory is rooted in jazz theory, and a lot of the writers of standards - Rodgers and Hart, and Gershwin.
Zooey Deschanel

I understood jazz, I understood how it worked. That's what I apply to everything.
Van Morrison

People have taken time out of their day and spent their money to come sit down at a concert. And it's jazz music-it's not easy for them to get to it. I don't want them ever to feel that I'm taking their presence lightly.
Wynton Marsalis

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

I think that people should learn about that. In most music, there's one way that you do something, and that's the only way. In jazz, it's a lot different.
Billy Higgins

Jazz is not the kind of music you are going to learn to play in three or four years or that you can just get because you have some talent for music.
Wynton Marsalis

There is an awful lot of what I call recreational jazz going on, where people go out and learn a particular language or style and become real sharks on somebody else's language.
Steve Lacy

Boxing is like jazz. The better it is, the less people appreciate it.
George Foreman

From blood banking to the modern subway, from jazz to social justice, the contributions of African Americans have shaped and molded and influenced our national culture and our national character.
Bill Frist

Jazz is the folk music of the machine age.
Paul Whiteman

There's the tradition in jazz of having the Battle of the Bands, and you do not want to get your head cut when you're playing.
Wynton Marsalis

Even though I left for a year, I grew here as a Jazz man. If I'm fortunate enough to go into the Hall of Fame, I will go as a Jazz man.
Karl Malone

Jazz was uplifted by what I did.
Norman Granz