It's something that - jazz is one of the few things that you can go and listen to, I don't care where you're from, what you are, what background you ….

The French - they like jazz, theyve been on jazz a long time..

Jazz was uplifted by what I did..

When will you learn that there isn't a word for everything?.

It's not the style that motivates me, as much as an attitude of openness that I have when I go into a project..

Diplomacy is like jazz: endless variations on a theme..

Oscar Peterson is the greatest living influence on jazz pianists today..

The original deal we made was that Walker would be treated like a regular movie, rather than an arthouse thing..

I like textures and tones. Sometimes, it will be a melodic feedback from a song or something. I like warm, ethereal sounds. That kind of gets covered….

I used to be a jazz snob, believe it or not. I sort of turned my nose up at anything more commercial..

Jazz is letting everybody do his or her thing with the music..

Music is a gift and a burden I've had since I can remember who I was..

The Threarah doesn't like anything he hasn't thought of for himself..

I was considered as a jazz man rather than as a blues player. There were no blues players-you played one sort of jazz of another sort of jazz..

The public, hearing pop music, is, without knowing it, also soaking up jazz..

I don't think that jazz, as any kind of an art form, has any permanence attached to it, apart from the practitioners of it..

I think everybody has to kind of decide what the word 'jazz' means to them, and that's fine..

Just figure out what you think jazz is, and then if it fits into that category, it's jazz, and if it doesn't, it isn't. It's no big deal..

Well, Grover Washington was my main influence and when I went to college, I started listening to more of the jazz masters like Sonny Rollins, Cannonb….

If you go back to the roots of jazz, it was all about COLLECTIVE improvisation..

Jazz tickles your muscles, symphonies stretch your soul..