Jazz is rhythm and meaning.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Jazz comes from our way of life, and because it's our national art form, it helps us to understand who we are.
Jazz music is to be played sweet, soft, plenty rhythm.
Jazz stands for freedom. It's supposed to be the voice of freedom: Get out there and improvise, and take chances, and don't be a perfectionist - leave that to the classical musicians.
Jazz is not something that can be defined through blunt instruments. It is much more poetic than that.
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.
What is jazz? It, It's almost like asking, What is French? Jazz is a musical language. It's a musical dialect that actually embodies the spirit of America.
One thing that sticks in my mind is that jazz means freedom and openness. It's a music that, although it developed out of the African American experience, speaks more about the human experience than the experience of a particular people.
If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know.
What I believe to be jazz is constructed and improvised music which is in the air right now. But I don't think that's most people's definition of jazz, you know? We don't know what we're talking about, because we don't know the definition.
The point of jazz is, you do something and then you go on.