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Some people try to get very philosophical and cerebral about what they're trying to say with jazz. You don't need any prologues, you just play.

— Oscar Peterson

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

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

— Steve Lacy

It's not easy to play in a framework that requires simplicity and to tastefully find ways to interject the kind of freedom that we have in playing jazz.

— Herbie Hancock

Jazz and poetry both involve a structure that may be familiar and to some extent predictable. And then, you try to create as much surprise and spontaneity and feeling and variation while respecting that structure.

— Robert Pinsky

What I love about jazz is the improvisation, the fact that you never know what's going to happen next.

— Cyrille Aimee

The starting point of all great jazz has got to be format, a language that you can work within that, in some ways, is much tighter than the blues or even gospel. It's all working towards the same destination - the difference being that Miles Davis flew there, and I'm still taking the subway.

— James McBride

✗Opposing Perspectives

Jazz can be a blank canvas full of possibilities.

— Barbara Januszkiewicz

The first thing is, jazz is one of the few things to let you know that there is a God and there is a creation.

— Billy Higgins

The beauty of jazz is that it's malleable. People are addressing it to suit their own personalities.

— Pat Metheny

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

— Van Morrison

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