There's a certain phraseology involved in jazz, and I've moved away from that.

The whole rise of new adult contemporary music and smooth jazz was a nice surprise.

From blood banking to the modern subway, from jazz to social justice, the contributions of African Americans have shaped and molded and influenced our national culture and our national character.

To me, Bill's musical heart is in Earthworks, in the jazz they are playing, in the acoustic kit.

I lie around the floor with my cats Billy and Jazz or watch DVDs with my best friends.

I like contemporary American literature and I like biographies and I like jazz and I like baseball and I like writers who write about the human condition and sci-fi is just something that I happened into.

You know, it's funny... when you're making money, people don't think you're playing jazz. Now when you're not making money, people think that you're a good jazz musician.

Boxing is like jazz. The better it is, the less people appreciate it.

Bill Evans is a real serious jazz pianist who, in my book, crossed over boundaries in terms of color. He used the piano as his canvas.

Though the Jazz Age continued it became less and less an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children's party taken over by the elders.

In a way, the history of jazz's development is a small mirror of classical music's development through the centuries. Now jazz is a living form of original music, while classical music has gotten to the end of its cycle in terms of exploring its form.

The day of the great jazz improviser who doesn't know how to read music is over.

Change is always happening. That's one of the wonderful things about jazz music.

Words are the children of reason and, therefore, can't explain it. They really can't translate feeling because they're not part of it. That's why it bugs me when people try to analyze jazz as an intellectual theorem. It's not. It's feeling.

I think Wes Montgomery is the greatest jazz guitarist that ever lived.