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Jazz is smooth and cool. Jazz is rage. Jazz flows like water. Jazz never seems to begin or end. Jazz isn't methodical, but jazz isn't messy either. Jazz is a conversation, a give and take. Jazz is the connection and communication between musicians. Jazz is abandon.

— Nat Wolff

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Jazz is rhythm and meaning.

— Henri Matisse

Jazz is like wine. When it is new, it is only for the experts, but when it gets older, everybody wants it.

— Steve Lacy

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

— David Sanborn

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

— Pat Metheny

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.

— Dexter Gordon

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.

— Mike Figgis

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

— Van Morrison

✗Opposing Perspectives

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.

— John Lurie

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

Jazz sometimes can be really complicated and inaccessible to people because they don't know what to start with. You can start with something that you love, but if you start with something that you hate, then it's like, 'You know what, I hate jazz.' It took me a lot of time to catch on to jazz, too.

— Cecile McLorin Salvant