If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know.
Louis Armstrong
It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands.
George Santayana
I understood jazz, I understood how it worked. That's what I apply to everything.
Van Morrison
Jazz is rhythm and meaning.
Henri Matisse
The point of jazz is, you do something and then you go on.
Van Morrison
If it has more than three chords, it's jazz.
Lou Reed
That's the thing about jazz: it's free flowing, it comes from your soul.
Billy Crystal
The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician.
Louis Armstrong