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Jazz washes away the dust of every day life.

Art Blakey

Jazz is the music of the body

Anais Nin

Jazz is not dead - it just smells funny

Frank Zappa

Jazz is rhythm and meaning.

Henri Matisse

Jazz is the folk music of the machine age

Paul Whiteman

I don't have a definition of jazz... You're just supposed to know it when you hear it.

Thelonious Monk

Jazz is a music made by and for people who have chosen to feel good in spite of conditions.

Johnny Griffin

Jazz will endure just as long people hear it through their feet instead of their brains.

John Philip Sousa

There are wonderful things in real jazz, the talent for improvisation, the liveliness, the being at one with the audience.

Henri Matisse

By and large, jazz has always been like the kind of a man you wouldn't want your daughter to associate with.

Duke Ellington

Jazz does not belong to one race or culture, but is a gift that America has given the world.

Ahmad Alaadeen

Jazz is... One of life's greatest gifts: fun found within surprise.

Unknown

Jazz is a mental attitude rather than a style. It uses a certain process of the mind expressed spontaneously through some musical instrument. I'm concerned with retaining that process.

Bill Evans

Blues is to jazz what yeast is to bread--without it, it's flat.

Carmen McRae

...don't think of yourself as a jazz musician. Think of yourself as a human being who plays music.

Charlie Haden

Jazz is like a great void, it waits patiently until a brave musician takes control of space and time.

Chris Griffin

Jazz is a feeling, more than anything else. It isn't music, it's language...

Enos Payne

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

George Foreman

[Jazz singing] is like pornography. You can't say what it is, but you know it when you see it.

Kurt Elling

Jazz today, as always in the past, is a matter of thoughtful creation, not mere unaided instinct.

Duke Ellington

Modern jazz: Variations on a non-existent theme

Unknown

Jazz is an intensified feeling of nonchalance.

FranÁoise Sagan

Jazz is... An open-ended music designed for open minds.

Unknown

Regarding jam sessions: Jazz musicians are the only workers I can think of who are willing to put in a full shift for pay and then go somewhere else and continue to work for free.

George Carlin

never heard of a jazz musician who retired. You love what you do, so what are you going to do? Play for the walls?

Nat Adderley

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