Jazz Quotes

I listen to jazz mainly. Mainstream jazz.

Once you start collecting records you learn more and more about jazz and blues.

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

I think what we need is a more welcoming mode from the people who put on a hundred million country-western shows on television. How about a monthly jazz show?

The blues is the foundation, and it's got to carry the top. The other part of the scene, the rock 'n' roll and the jazz, are the walls of the blues.

Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.