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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.

The point of jazz is, you do something and then you go on.

I always used to say I'm definitely not a straight-ahead jazz singer, because then there's people who would hear what I do and say, 'Is it jazz? I don't know...' Whatever it is, it really comes down to creating music that makes people feel something.

If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know.

Jazz is rhythm and meaning.

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.

If I am playing any music at all it is jazz music.

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

Jazz is a hard music, and you have to really work hard and also have fun performing; that's the most important thing.

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