Jazz Quotes

That's kind of like how jazz is sometimes. You're out there predicting the future, and no one believes you.

As my career has progressed, I've had the pleasure of playing with the baddest jazz cats on the planet. But that doesn't change my desire to entertain folks. That's really who I am.

I think Wes Montgomery is the greatest jazz guitarist that ever lived.

As far as I'm concerned, blues and jazz are the great American contributions to music.

Miles Davis fully embraced possibilities and delved into it. He was criticized heavily from the jazz side. He was supposed to be part of a tradition, but he didn't consider himself part of a tradition.

I have always been a person who is concerned with the dignity of jazz music and the way jazz musicians have been treated and are treated, and the fact that the music has not been given the kind of due that it deserves.