What I'm doing, I prefer to call that jazz, because it is a beautiful word - I love it.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I think everybody has to kind of decide what the word 'jazz' means to them, and that's fine.
Well, jazz is to me, a complete lifestyle. It's bigger than a word. It's a much bigger force than just something that you can say. It's something that you have to feel. It's something that you have to live.
It's always fun to talk about jazz.
There's a certain phraseology involved in jazz, and I've moved away from that.
Some people say that if you do anything other than a straight-ahead groove, that it's not jazz. But that kind of labeling is wrong. Music is what it is; if it sounds good, it sounds good.
Jazz to me is a living music. It's a music that since its beginning has expressed the feelings, the dreams, hopes, of the people.
Jazz changes and all. But I don't know the names of what it is I'm doing.
Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music.
The point of jazz is, you do something and then you go on.
If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know.