If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know.
Louis Armstrong
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
One thing about playing the real jazz is that you can't count it.
Mahalia Jackson
I love music, I love all kinds of music, particularly jazz. Jazz is an extension of America. There's no other country in the world that could have produced jazz.
Jon Huntsman, Jr.
I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract Expressionism.
Don DeLillo
Gospel music rhythms are not African in origin, although I know that's what the jazz experts say.
Mahalia Jackson
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
I was a jazz major in high school, in an all-jazz band. No matter what I do, it features my musical influences.
Wyclef Jean