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When somebody uses a word as a genre distinction, all it really does is trigger certain experiences, or music, that somebody's been exposed to. But that's an individual thing; there's no sort of universal understanding of what jazz is.

— Gerald Clayton

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✓Similar Perspectives

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.

— Kenny G

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.

— Herbie Hancock

Jazz music by its very nature is just a conglomerate of a lot of different kinds of music.

— David Sanborn

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.

— Ray Brown

Jazz is rhythm and meaning.

— Henri Matisse

Jazz has borrowed from other genres of music and also has lent itself to other genres of music.

— Herbie Hancock

Jazz is not something that can be defined through blunt instruments. It is much more poetic than that.

— Pat Metheny

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

— Kenny G

Jazz really does try to include everything. It's always been popular music. But the wonderful thing about jazz is its willingness to take chances.

— Madeleine Peyroux

Jazz comes from our way of life, and because it's our national art form, it helps us to understand who we are.

— Wynton Marsalis

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