I can turn on some jazz guitarist, and he won't do a thing for me, if he's not playing electrically. But Jeff Beck's great to listen to.
Ritchie Blackmore
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
Jazz is rhythm and meaning.
Henri Matisse
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.
Gospel music rhythms are not African in origin, although I know that's what the jazz experts say.
Mahalia Jackson
Jazz music is an intensified feeling of nonchalance.
Francoise Sagan
One thing about playing the real jazz is that you can't count it.
Mahalia Jackson